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UN-backed experts find US strike on Minab school amounts to war crime

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  • An independent fact-finding mission on Iran has found "reasonable grounds" the US committed war crimes, with strikes on a school and a sports centre.
  • The human rights experts also found that Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during their fatal enforcement action on anti-government protests.
  • The UN experts said they found reasonable grounds to believe US forces were responsible for an attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in the city of Minab, where more than 150 people were killed, including about 120 schoolchildren, according to Iranian officials.
  • UN experts said the school was an identifiable civilian object and found no evidence that it was being used for military purposes.

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The UN experts said they found reasonable grounds to believe US forces were responsible for an attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in the city of Minab.

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An independent fact-finding mission on Iran has found "reasonable grounds" the US committed war crimes, with strikes on a school and a sports centre.

The Trump administration has yet to directly accept the blame or release findings of a Pentagon investigation into the school bombing.

Human rights experts commissioned by the United Nations say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the United States committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including on a school in the southern city of Minab.

The human rights experts also found that Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during their fatal enforcement action on anti-government protests.

The findings in a new report by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, to be submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, examined the US's conduct during the Iran war that began in February and the Iranian government's response to nationwide unrest that started in late December.

US officials have before said military operations are conducted in accordance with the law of armed conflict, while Iran has consistently rejected allegations of systematic rights violations.

The UN experts said they found reasonable grounds to believe US forces were responsible for an attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in the city of Minab, where more than 150 people were killed, including about 120 schoolchildren, according to Iranian officials.

In June, US President Donald Trump said that "nobody" purposefully attacked a girls' school in ​Iran in February, citing an investigation into the incident.

UN experts said the school was an identifiable civilian object and found no evidence that it was being used for military purposes.

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