‘Reasonable grounds’ to believe US committed war crimes in Iran – UN

September 17, 2026

Indiscriminate attacks, such as the strike on an elementary school in Minab, went beyond negligence, a new report has found

Iran war live: UN mission says US likely committed war crimes in Iran

September 17, 2026
Stephen Quillen, Federica Marsi, Mahmoud Sayed and Tracy J. Jawad

• US President Donald Trump says he’s approaching a crucial decision on whether to “annihilate” his Iranian foes.
• The UN World Food Programme (WFP) says fighting along Yemen’s Red Sea coast has displaced an estimated 125,000 people.
• A UN fact-finding mission has found “reasonable grounds” to believe the US was behind two attacks in Iran, including on a school in Minab in February, which it says constituted war ⁠crimes.
  
• Yemeni government forces are trying to prevent Houthi advances on several fronts, including the strategically important Kahbub mountains near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and Taiz, with Saudi Arabia providing air strike support in areas around the city.
• Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi has described Saudi claims that a drone attack targeted Mecca as “an ugly lie” and said his fighters are primarily targeting Saudi military sites and oil infrastructure.
• Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif says the time has come to implement the Mecca mutual defence agreement with Saudi Arabia and Turkiye following Houthi attacks on the kingdom.
• One ⁠person ⁠has been killed and two ⁠others injured in a drone ⁠interception in Saudi Arabia’s southwest governorate of Taif, reported ‌Saudi state TV.