In the aftermath of a US and Israeli military campaign against Iran, a United Nations fact-finding mission has concluded there are reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed war crimes — striking a primary school and a sports complex that bore no military purpose, killing over 150 civilians, most of them children. The findings arrive not in isolation, but alongside documentation of Iran's own crimes against humanity during the protests that followed, painting a portrait of a conflict in which the most vulnerable — children, the wounded, the detained — bore the heaviest cost. At
UN finds 'reasonable grounds' US committed war crimes in Iran strikes killing 150+
At least 156 people, including approximately 120 children, were killed in the school strike in Minab; at least 21 civilians including seven children died in the Lamerd attack; Iran's crackdown killed at least 221 children and resulted in tens of thousands of arbitrary detentions.