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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Beaumont and agencies

Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds

Masoud bows his head against a memorial banner for his son amid the school's rubble
A man who lost his son in the school strike in February at the site of the atrocity in Minab, Iran, in August. Photograph: Majid Asgaripour/Reuters

A UN fact-finding mission has determined there are reasonable grounds to believe the US was behind military strikes on a school and a sports facility in Iran in ⁠February that killed 120 children, and that these constituted war ⁠crimes.

The school strike, which killed 156 civilians including 120 children, involved a US Tomahawk missile that collapsed the roof of the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school, which the UN said was “clearly identifiable”, in Minab, Hormozgan province, on 28 February.

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