Overview
- The three‑expert U.N. investigation presented its report to the Human Rights Council this week and concluded there are reasonable grounds to believe two U.S. strikes amounted to indiscriminate attacks that may be war crimes while also finding Iran’s security forces committed crimes against humanity during nationwide protests.
- The report says a strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab on Feb. 28 killed more than 150 people, including about 120 children, and that U.S. forces failed to verify the school was not a civilian site before the attack.
- Investigators found a second Feb. 28 strike in Lamerd used a PrSM missile that scattered tens of thousands of tungsten fragments over a wide area and caused at least 22 civilian deaths, which the mission said could not have been limited to a military target.
- The mission’s work was constrained because Iran denied unrestricted access and answered roughly a quarter of information requests, and U.S. internal inquiries into the school strike remain incomplete and unpublished with media reports saying outdated intelligence may have played a role.
- The report calls for ending hostilities, independent probes, reparations and prosecutions, but the U.S. has publicly rejected the findings and political divisions at the U.N. make legal or enforcement follow‑up uncertain.