UN mission finds reasonable grounds to believe U.S. committed war crimes in Iran

UN fact-finding mission says US committed possible war crimes in Iran

The mission also said Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during their crackdown on recent protests.

Sep 17, 2026

Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds

Fact-finding mission says military strikes on school and sports facility in ⁠February constitute war ⁠crimes A UN fact-finding mission on Iran has said there are reasonable grounds to believe the US was behind two military strikes on a school and sports facility in Iran in ⁠February, and that these constituted war ⁠crimes. It also found Iranian ​authorities committed crimes against humanity during their deadly crackdown on anti-government protests. Continue reading...

Sep 17, 2026

Human rights experts: ‘Reasonable grounds’ to believe US committed war crimes with Iran strikes

The United Nations (UN) fact-finding mission on Iran said Thursday they found “reasonable grounds” that the U.S. military committed war crimes in two airstrikes inside Iran and accused Iran’s government of carrying out crimes against humanity against its citizens during the forceful crackdown on anti-government protests earlier this year. The mission is made up of…

Sep 17, 2026

UN mission finds reasonable grounds to believe U.S. committed war crimes in Iran

The U.S. may have committed war crimes in two airstrikes in Iran , including a mass-casualty strike on a school for which Washington has yet to claim responsibility, a UN fact-finding mission said Thursday. The big picture: The administration has waged a campaign of aggressive, norm-busting war-fighting, with the president repeatedly threatening to hit civilian infrastructure in his pressure campaign on Tehran. The president has shrugged off questions about his attacks on Iran and previously sai

Sep 17, 2026

UN experts say grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran strikes

The US has not acknowledged carrying out February's deadly strikes on a primary school in Minab and a sports complex in Lamerd.

Sep 17, 2026

UN investigators conclude ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe certain US strikes in Iran were war crimes

The U.N.’s fact-finding mission on Iran acknowledged it found “reasonable grounds” to conclude the U.S. military committed war crimes in two bombings inside Iran that allegedly resulted in civilian casualties. The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, which was established by the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2022, released its report on the conditions Iranian […]

Sep 17, 2026