An independent group tapped by the United Nations’ top human rights body reported Thursday that it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran. The cited atrocity was a pair of Tomahawk missile strikes on the “clearly identifiable” Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab—a city in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan—and a sports complex in Lamerd that occurred in February. The two attacks killed 178 civilians, most of them children. The findings were documented …

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    1 day ago

    Taps head: Can’t get tried for war crimes when the US is not a signatory to the Rome Statute (which founded the International Criminal Court, responsible for trying war crimes).

    Wonder why that is?