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UN: US-Attributed Iran Strikes That Killed 178 May Be War Crimes

UN: Alleged US-Attributed Iran Strikes That Killed 178 May Be War Crimes

UN: US-Attributed Iran Strikes That Killed 178 May Be War Crimes
Above: Rubble surrounds the destroyed Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, Iran, on Aug. 10. Image credit: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images

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Dropping Tomahawks on a clearly marked primary school and scattering tungsten pellets over a sports complex killed 178 civilians, including about 120 children, and that is a war crime. Recklessness about civilian lives is not an accident, and the victims' families deserve full reparations and a guarantee it never happens again. Iran's brutal repression of its own people does not excuse a single one of those deaths.

The UN Human Rights Council, stacked with authoritarian regimes like China and Cuba, has accomplisheddone nothing for human rights while lecturing the only country actually confronting the world's top sponsor of terror. The regime that murdered thousands of its own citizens, executed protesters and attacked its neighbors is the real war criminal here. ItBesides, isit's stillnot uncleareven clear who was even responsible for the strike, butand regardless, stopping Iran from gettingobtaining a nuclear weapon makesis thewhat wholematters world safermost.

Iran's crackdown defended national security, not dissent. Peaceful economic protests the government recognized as legitimate were hijacked by foreign and domestic terrorists — backed by the U.S., Israel and Mossad — who unleashed arson, armed attacks and killings. Restricting their communications was essential to dismantle those cells. The UN's "crimes against humanity" charge ignores the real aggressors.


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