UN mission finds evidence signaling U.S. war crimes in Iran; Washington rejects report

This photograph taken from the southern Lebanese village of Al-Haniyya shows smoke rising from the site of an Israeli controlled explosion in the southern Lebanese of Al-Mansouri on September 7, 2026. Kawnat Haju | Afp | Getty ImagesA United Nations fact-finding mission said there was evidence to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes during the Iran war, lending credibility to Tehran's similar claims.There are "reasonable grounds" to believe that Washington's forces "committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in the loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects," the UN's Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran said on Thursday. The mission pointed out the Tomahawk missile strike on a primary school that killed more than 150 people in the city of Minab, and another airstrike where missiles were used against a "clearly identifiable sports complex and residential area," killing 22 civilians. The report said the school was the intended point of impact, and the resulting damage wasn't the result of an errant strike or collateral damage from an attack on a compound of Iran's Revolutionary Guard next to the school. The ex...