United Nations investigators have found reasonable grounds to believe that the United States committed war crimes during attacks in Iran, Middle East Eye reported on Thursday.
According to the outlet, the UN findings included an assessment of a US strike on an elementary school in Minab. Investigators concluded that the attack formed part of what they described as indiscriminate attacks, rather than being caused by a missile that had gone astray.
The finding distinguishes between an accidental deviation by a weapon and the wider manner in which the attacks were carried out. Middle East Eye reported that the investigators did not attribute the Minab school strike to an errant missile, instead linking it to attacks they assessed as indiscriminate.
The reported conclusion used a “reasonable grounds” standard in relation to possible US war crimes in Iran. The material provided did not give further details about the investigators, their mandate, the evidence reviewed or the legal reasoning behind the assessment.
No casualty figures, timing for the Minab strike or additional information about damage at the elementary school were included in the supplied report summary. It also did not provide a response from the US government or Iranian authorities to the UN investigators’ findings.
Middle East Eye published its report on September 17, 2026. The central finding reported by the outlet was that UN investigators saw sufficient grounds to suspect war crimes by the United States and treated the Minab school attack as part of indiscriminate operations, not as an isolated missile error.
Reporting attribution: based on reporting by Middle East Eye — original source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-investigators-find-reasonable-grounds-us-committed-war-crimes-iran.