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A new United Nations investigation says a deadly U.S. strike on an elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, may have amounted to a war crime, raising serious questions about the targeting process during the opening phase of the U.S.-Iran war. The UN says at least 156 people, including 120 children and 26 teachers, were reportedly killed when the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school was struck.

Investigators examined satellite imagery, videos, photographs, expert information and dozens of interviews, concluding there were reasonable grounds to believe the U.S. carried out indiscriminate attacks in two separate strikes. The second strike, in Lamerd, reportedly killed 22 civilians.

The U.S. has rejected the UN report as not credible, while the Pentagon says its own investigation remains ongoing. Earlier reporting has raised the possibility that outdated intelligence and inaccurate target coordinates contributed to the Minab strike.

The UN investigation also examined Iran's crackdown on protesters, documenting allegations of torture, enforced disappearances and thousands of deaths, which investigators described as potential crimes against humanity.

As the findings move toward the UN Human Rights Council, one question remains at the center of the controversy: Was the Minab school strike a deliberate attack, or a catastrophic targeting failure?


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00:26A deadly U.S. strike
00:28on an elementary school in Iran
00:30may have been a war crime.
00:32That is the exclusive finding
00:34from a new United Nations investigation.
00:37And the report is putting fresh scrutiny
00:40on what happened during the opening hours
00:42of the U.S. war with Iran.
00:44According to the U.N. fact-finding mission,
00:47investigators found reasonable grounds
00:49to believe that the United States
00:51carried out indiscriminate attacks
00:53in two separate strikes on February 28th.
00:57One of them hit the Shajireh Tayabeah Elementary School
01:01in the southern Iranian city of Manab.
01:04Iranian officials say at least 156 people were killed,
01:09including 120 children and 26 teachers.
01:14The second strike examined by the U.N.
01:16hit a sports center and residential area
01:19in the city of La Merde.
01:20The U.N. says that attack killed 22 civilians.
01:24And this is where the investigation
01:26becomes particularly significant.
01:29The U.N. says investigators examined
01:32satellite imagery, photographs, videos,
01:35information from credible organizations and experts,
01:39and conducted dozens of interviews.
01:41Their conclusion?
01:42There were reasonable grounds
01:44to believe the United States committed a war crime
01:47of launching indiscriminate attacks
01:49that resulted in civilian deaths and injuries
01:52or damage to civilian objects.
01:55But there is another critical part of this story.
01:58The U.S. has not released its own full investigation
02:01into the Manab strike.
02:03The Pentagon says an investigation is ongoing
02:06and that there is nothing to announce at this time.
02:09The Trump administration has also rejected
02:11the U.N. report as not credible.
02:14Meanwhile, earlier reporting
02:16on the U.S. military investigation
02:18has pointed to a possible explanation
02:21for how the school was hit.
02:23U.S. Central Command reportedly used
02:25outdated intelligence when creating target coordinates
02:29for a nearby Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facility.
02:33Satellite imagery showed that the school
02:35and the military site had once been part
02:37of the same compound, but later imagery showed a fence
02:41separating the school from the military facility,
02:44along with a separate entrance to the school.
02:46And imagery from December 2025
02:50reportedly showed dozens of people
02:52in the school's courtyard.
02:53The U.N. investigators said
02:55there was no information indicating
02:57that the school was being used
02:59for military purposes at the time of the strike.
03:02They concluded that the U.S. had failed
03:04in its obligation to do everything feasible
03:07to verify that the target
03:09was actually a military objective.
03:11That raises a major question.
03:14Was this a deliberate attack on a civilian site
03:17or a catastrophic targeting failure
03:19caused by outdated intelligence?
03:21The U.N. report does not simply settle that question.
03:25Instead, it lays out evidence
03:27and says there are reasonable grounds
03:29to believe a war crime occurred.
03:31And the controversy does not end there.
03:34The same U.N. investigation also examined Iran's crackdown
03:38on anti-government protests
03:40in late 2025 and early 2026.
03:44Investigators said thousands were killed
03:47and documented allegations of torture
03:49and enforced disappearances.
03:51They described those alleged violations
03:54as crimes against humanity.
03:56So this report places both sides
03:58of the conflict under scrutiny,
04:00U.S. military conduct during the war
04:03and Iran's treatment of its own population
04:06before the war.
04:07The U.N. says Iran provided responses
04:10to about a quarter of information requests,
04:13while requests to U.S. officials
04:15and the Israeli government went unanswered.
04:17The findings will now be submitted
04:19to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
04:21For the families of those killed in Manab, however,
04:24the central issue is far more immediate.
04:27Why was a school hit?
04:29And whether the investigation that follows
04:31will establish exactly how that happened
04:33and who should ultimately be held responsible.
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