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

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Cost of Iran war grows

Cost of Iran war grows

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 independent experts and was established in November. 2022 by the UN’s top human rights body, the Human Rights Council. 

The Pentagon told The Hill it declines to comment on a report conducted by an outside organization, adding that the department’s investigation “remains ongoing” and “we have nothing to announce at the moment.” 

In late February, at the start of the U.S. war against Iran, an all-girls school in the south of the country, Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School, was struck, killing nearly 160 individuals, including over 120 schoolchildren. 

The UN experts concluded in their report that the strike was a Tomahawk missile fired by the U.S.........

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