In the long and troubled history of war's reckoning with conscience, a United Nations fact-finding mission has placed two names into the record: Minab and Lamerd — Iranian cities where American airstrikes on a school and a sports center killed and wounded civilians in February, and where the UN's independent experts now find reasonable grounds to call those acts war crimes. The same mission turns its gaze inward on Iran itself, documenting a systematic campaign of violence against its own people during December's protests. Neither finding carries the force of a court's verdict, but both carry
UN fact-finding mission says US committed war crimes in Iran strikes
Over 150 people killed in the Minab school strike including approximately 120 schoolchildren; 22 civilians killed and injured in the Lamerd sports center strike; thousands killed during Iranian government crackdowns on protesters.