A UN mission finds US war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including on the Minab school, and crimes against humanity in Iran's crackdown

According to ABC News and the Sydney Morning Herald, UN investigators estimate that Washington relied on intelligence placing a high-ranking Iranian commander at the school site before striking, without re-verifying this information or updating its targeting databases on the existence of the school building, located near a naval installation of the Revolutionary Guards.

For the mission, this lack of update goes beyond simple negligence. In Lamerd, according to the G1, the strike was carried out with a fragmentation PrSM missile that dispersed "tungsten clouds" over a sports complex and a residential neighborhood near a school.

In May, before the House of Representatives, Admiral Brad Cooper, from Central Command, had stated that the Minab attack "corresponded" to a US strike, according to the US press. In June, Donald Trump himself acknowledged that "nobody did this intentionally" and that "mistakes were made", according to Axios.

CENTCOM, on the other hand, continues to deny any responsibility in the strike on the Lamerd sports complex. The State Department, for its part, has dismissed any credibility of the UN report, accusing the Human Rights Council of "pushing anti-American and anti-Semitic rhetoric" and "appeasing repressive regimes", according to CNBC.

Four years after the death in detention of Mahsa Amini, Amnesty International documents, over more than 1,000 pages, murders, tortures, rapes and forced disappearances committed during the repression of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement of 2022, qualified as crimes against humanity, according to France 24 and RFI.

The report names 87 Iranian officials, including the current head of the Revolutionary Guards Ahmad Vahidi. Six of them have since been killed in American-Israeli strikes that opened the war at the end of February, according to BFMTV.

The report is to be presented on Monday to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, according to several outlets, including Daily Maverick and SAPO Notícias. Jornal de Brasília reports that investigators are asking Council member states to pressure for an end to the war, to prosecute those responsible, and to grant asylum to civilians fleeing Iran.

Daily Maverick notes that the mission is not itself a judicial body: its findings can inform prosecutions in national courts or the International Criminal Court. The report comes as Washington has granted visas to the Iranian president and his foreign minister to attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week, according to The Independent.