Sara Hossain's investigators published a finding on Thursday that no American official has answered. They have reasonable grounds to believe the United States "committed the war crime of launching an indiscriminate attack resulting in loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects" — on a primary school in southern Iran.
Hossain chairs the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran, a panel the Human Rights Council created in 2022. Her team set the finding down in report A/HRC/63/61, dated 14 September.
Six-year-olds sat in class at the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab on 28 February, in the opening hour of the American and Israeli assault on Iran. Minab's prosecutor, Ebrahim Taheri, put the toll at 156 — 120 schoolchildren, 26 teachers, all of them women, seven parents, a bus driver, a pharmacy technician. Independent investigators counted 157, including 123 children. Fifteen were six years old.
A Tomahawk did it, and the United States is the only country in that war that fires Tomahawks. CENTCOM's commander, Brad Cooper, conceded on 19 May that the Pentagon's own inquiry "correlated" the strike with an American missile. Somebody had aimed at an old map.
Hossain's team found the same crime a second time that morning, in another town, using a weapon built to scatter.
