UN finds grounds to believe US strike on Iranian school was a war crime
Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
A UN fact-finding mission says there are reasonable grounds to believe US forces carried out two strikes in Iran in February — on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, where more than 150 people were killed including around 120 schoolchildren, and on a sports centre in Lamerd — and that both amounted to war crimes. Investigators found the US relied on unverified intelligence about a commander's presence and struck while aware of the risk to civilians. The mission also found Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity in their crackdown on protests.
Rather, the US directed the strikes at the building of the school while being aware of a substantial risk of striking a civilian object and acting recklessly as regards the possibility that this would happen.
- Wildgoose
Seeing as it was a "double tap" it was clearly a deliberate target. Bomb the school, wait until officers from the nearby base with kids at the school arrive to try and rescue their daughters and hit it again. Clearly a war crime, possibly using Israeli targeting information, which clouds which State is ultimately responsible.
- skeledrew
So... what's gonna be done about it? The recent precedent has been to invade the country, grab the president and try them.
- albatross79
Arguing whether it was intentional or a mistake is stupid. It doesn't matter, the enormity of it should shake everyone involved. That it doesn't is the real tell of what kind of people these are.
- pmkary
Yes because normal people have tomahawks they can shoot to schools in their basements, and it required a court to find out who was responsible: United States, Dr. Evil, or the Cookie Monster?
- Nevaeh
Their families should receive an apology and compensation if it can be done covertly with a neutral third party I suppose. Even if it take decades. One day.
For now I can only process it better knowing that The Red Cross Society of China allocated $200,000 to the Iranian Red Crescent Society specifically as special funds for the bereaved parents who can apply for it. Each family basically receive about an entire year of earnings, which isn't much but at least it is something to help cover funeral costs.
- boesboes
That was never a question right?
- r_lee
let me guess, the end result of this will be "strong condemnation"?
- ProllyInfamous
IIRC the guy who blew up his Tesla truck (in front of Trump Tower) was a drone pilot involved in this (or a similar) mass-casualty bombing. Perhaps he was leadership – but the released parts of his manifesto... were revealing about his opinion on US-motives.
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- MomsAVoxell
Why is this flagged?
- davidguetta
Was it not a former miiltary building wrongly designated by claude as a target ?