UN-backed rights experts report “reasonable grounds” to believe the United States committed war crimes in two missile strikes in Iran in February, including an attack on a primary school in Minab. The findings are based on an independent fact-finding mission’s assessment of strike evidence and the impact on victims and surrounding areas, which the experts say indicates civilian objects were targeted.

The reports also describe a second strike in Iran involving a sports complex in Lamerd, with investigators saying it killed civilians, including children. Multiple outlets cite that the experts documented what they viewed as failures in the U.S. process to verify whether targets were military objectives, including not updating targeting information and not adequately checking publicly available data.

At the same time, outlets differ in how they frame responsibility and related parallel findings. Some coverage focuses primarily on the potential U.S. war crimes; others add that the mission also finds grounds to believe Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during the crackdown on protests, including unlawful killings, torture, and enforced disappearances. Washington rejects the report’s conclusions, and U.S. officials previously denied targeting civilians.

All outlets reference the experts’ submission to the UN Human Rights Council and the mission’s language that the evidence meets the threshold for further accountability review rather than a final criminal verdict.