The White House rejected a report by a UN independent fact-finding panel on Iran, which announced that it has “reasonable grounds” to suspect that the United States committed war crimes in two attacks on February 28 against Iran. The panel said that at least 178 civilians were killed in these two attacks.

In response to the report, Ana Kelly, a White House spokesperson, said the UN Human Rights Council “has not achieved anything in the field of human rights for decades and has made baseless statements.” She added that, from the perspective of the US government, the Islamic Republic is the only side in this war that committed a war crime.

In its report, the fact-finding panel said that the primary school of Shajare Tayyeb in Minab was “the intended point of impact” in one of the attacks, and that US forces had not sufficiently assessed before the strike whether this building was a military target or not. According to the report, in the attack on this school more than 150 people were killed, including about 120 children.

The panel also reviewed another attack on the same day on a sports complex and a residential area in Larestan. The fact-finding panel’s findings are not binding and do not amount to a judicial ruling, and are set to be considered by the UN Human Rights Council.