UN inquiry attributes deadly Minab school strike to US forces
Iranian official calls the attacks in Minab and Lamerd apparent war crimes, while citing a UN fact-finding report on the Minab incident.
An Iranian deputy foreign minister cited a UN fact-finding report that reportedly found reasonable grounds to hold US forces responsible for a deadly, indiscriminate attack on a Minab primary school. He also described the Minab and Lamerd incidents as war crimes and said US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council would not remove responsibility. The supplied evidence contains conflicting casualty figures and no US response.
A UN independent fact-finding committee reportedly concluded that there are reasonable grounds to believe US forces were responsible for an attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab. According to the supplied report, the strike killed 150 people, including 120 students, and damaged civilian infrastructure. The committee characterized the attack as indiscriminate and said it constituted a war crime under international law.
Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, said on September 18 that the incidents in Minab and Lamerd were “an apparent war crime,” rather than an operational error. He argued that the United States could not evade responsibility by withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council.
The available evidence directly supports the attribution and legal characterization reported by the UN committee only as described in the source. Gharibabadi’s statements are presented as the position of an Iranian official, not as an independently verified determination. The source also contains differing casualty figures: Gharibabadi referred to 168 children killed in Minab, while the later summary of the UN report cited 150 deaths, including 120 students. No supporting details about the Lamerd incident or the United States’ response are included in the supplied material.