UN Mission Finds Reasonable Grounds That US Committed War Crimes in Iran

Overview

• An independent UN fact-finding team reported on Thursday that it found reasonable grounds to believe US strikes on February 28 hit a primary school in Minab and a school and sports centre in Lamerd and were indiscriminate acts that may amount to war crimes.
• The Minab strike is linked in the report to the deaths of over 150 civilians including many children according to Iranian figures and investigators who say the school was a clearly civilian object not being used for military purposes.
• The same UN mission concluded that Iranian state forces carried out widespread and systematic abuses during nationwide protests that began in December 2025 and that those actions meet the threshold for crimes against humanity.
• The report cites video, imagery and reporting as evidence but notes limits to independent verification and contrasts with US military denials and internal probes that have not publicly accepted the UN findings.
• Presentation of the report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva could trigger political censure, calls for judicial inquiry or referrals but any prosecutions will depend on further investigations and states' cooperation.