'Reasonable grounds' US committed war crime in Iran school strike, UN experts claim

Human rights experts commissioned by the United Nations (UN) have concluded that there are "reasonable grounds" to believe that the US committed a war crime when it struck a school in Iran.An international fact-finding mission said its probe centred on two airstrikes that killed at least 178 civilians, including women and children. At the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran in February, at least one American missile hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, in the country's south. Image: The site of the bombing. Pic: Reuters Iranian state media has said that 168 people were killed in the strike, most of them children."Following the US and Israeli attacks on 28 February, the mission found reasonable grounds to believe the US committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in the loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects," the team said in a statement. The Trump administration is yet to directly accept responsibility - or release the findings of a Pentagon investigation into the school bombing.A White House spokesperson on Thursday accused the UN Human Rights Council of accomplishing "nothing for human rights while spouting unseriou...