UN Mission Says US May Have Committed War Crimes in Iran.

The findings were released by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran ahead of their presentation to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva next week.

The mission said the first strike targeted the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, southern Iran. Investigators concluded that the attack amounted to an indiscriminate attack causing civilian deaths and damage to civilian infrastructure. 

According to the report, the school was a clearly identifiable civilian facility. Investigators said there were visible signs showing that it was an educational institution for children and concluded that US forces had failed to take all feasible measures to establish whether it was a legitimate military target.

The second incident investigated by the UN mission occurred in Lamerd, where a US strike hit a sports facility and nearby residential areas. The mission said the sports complex was visibly separate from a nearby compound belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The attack killed 22 civilian men and women, according to the UN findings. The mission said it had reasonable grounds to believe that the strike was also an indiscriminate attack and therefore constituted a war crime. The US Central Command has denied carrying out the Lamerd strike.

The report comes as the United States continues to reject allegations that its forces deliberately targeted civilians. The Pentagon said its investigation into the incidents is still ongoing and declined to provide further comment.

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly also rejected the UN findings, accusing the UN Human Rights Council of failing to protect human rights and saying that Iran was the only side in the conflict that had committed war crimes.

“The only party in this conflict that has committed war crimes is the Iranian regime, which has murdered thousands of its own people, killed Americans overseas, executed acts of terrorism in the Strait of Hormuz, and launched indiscriminate attacks against its neighbors in the region,” Kelly said.

The UN mission, however, also accused Iranian authorities of serious violations. It found reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity were committed during the crackdown on nationwide protests that began in late December 2025.

The investigators cited unlawful killings, torture, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances and severe restrictions on freedom of expression. Iranian authorities have reported that 3,038 people were killed and about 25,000 injured during the unrest, although the UN mission said the actual toll could be considerably higher and that it could not independently verify the government’s figures.

The mission’s findings are not themselves a court judgment or a criminal conviction, but its documentation could potentially be used in future accountability efforts or legal proceedings.

The report is scheduled to be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.