UN mission finds grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran, and Tehran crimes against humanity
The mission said the strikes killed at least 178 civilians and found Iran’s crackdown involved widespread killings, torture and arbitrary detention.
- On Thursday, September 17, 2026, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran submitted a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council finding reasonable grounds that the U.S. committed war crimes and Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity.
- Two U.S. strikes in February constituted war crimes: Tomahawk missiles struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, killing more than 150 people, and precision missiles hit a Lamerd sports center, killing 22 civilians.
- According to U.N.-backed investigators, Iranian authorities carried out a systematic crackdown on anti-government protests beginning in late December 2025, involving unlawful killings, torture, and arbitrary detentions across all 31 provinces.
- Despite the findings, U.S. officials have not accepted responsibility. President Donald Trump claimed in June that "nobody" purposefully attacked the school, while U.S. Central Command denied launching strikes into Lamerd.
- The report, submitted to the Council in Geneva, urges both nations to cease violations and provide full reparations to victims. Its findings serve as an investigative assessment rather than a binding criminal conviction.
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There is reasonable reason to believe that the United States has committed war crimes in Iran, a group of experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council has determined. In one of the attacks, Norwegian Hamid Amini was killed.
Seven months after the bombing that killed 150 people, including 120 children, at Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab , south of Iran, a UN fact-finding mission concluded that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that the United States committed the war crime of launching an indiscriminate attack that caused the death or injury of civilians or damage to civilian objects.” The international organization is of the same opinion as the …
A UN report states that there are grounds to suspect that the US committed war crimes in attacks in Iran, and that Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during the violent suppression of protests.
U.N. panel accuses U.S. of committing war crimes in Iran
Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body 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. NBC News' Monica Alba reports on the accusations and potential consequences.
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