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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        My understanding is that there was a department tasked with identifying sites like schools, hospitals, and churches so that this sort of thing wouldn’t happen, but they were dismantled either by DOGE cuts or the anti-woke jihad.

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    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?

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    Threatening to take out infrastructure and civilians is also a war crime. They do that every day.

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    And absolutely nothing will happen. It will all be a show. The US is above the law.

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      Tbf a lot of crimes by the US elite are going unpunished every goddamn day.

      Kinda hard to punish the country that owns your currency valuation and is very loosey goosey with the drones and missiles

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    The country that can’t eat breakfast without doing warcrimes, has invasion plans of an “allied” country, in case said country were to try to prosecute someone for warcrimes, did more warcrimes? I am absolutely shocked.

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    Pfft… based on what?

    Just the clear and obvious, widely reported, extensive and repeated public evidence of both actual and threatened war crimes?

    That’ll never hold up in court.