According to the UN-backed fact-finding mission, the two attacks targeted civilian sites in southern Iran. One of the attacks was a February 28 strike on an elementary school in the southern city of Minab. The mission identified the incident as a Tomahawk missile strike against a “clearly identifiable” school.
The second attack took place in the southern city of Lamerd and involved an airstrike on a “clearly identifiable sports complex and residential area.” According to the mission, precision-strike missiles used in the attack scattered tungsten pellets over the sports complex and the surrounding residential area.
The fact-finding mission said its findings provided “reasonable grounds” to believe that the United States was responsible for the two military strikes. It said the attacks involved civilian objects that were clearly identifiable, including an elementary school and a sports complex located in or near a residential area.
The UN-backed panel said the findings were made in connection with the United States and Israeli attacks on February 28. It concluded that there were reasonable grounds to believe that the United States committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks that resulted in the loss of life or injury to civilians, or damage to civilian objects.
“Following the United States and Israeli attacks on 28 February, the mission found reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in the loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects,” the fact-finding mission said in a statement.
The mission specifically identified the Minab school strike and the Lamerd airstrike as the two attacks examined in its findings. Its statement characterized the incidents as attacks involving civilian facilities and said there were reasonable grounds to believe that they amounted to war crimes.
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