Ali Bahreini, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations Office at Geneva, on Monday strongly condemned the Feb 28 attack by the United States and Israel on a girls' elementary school in Minab, a city in Iran's southern Hormozgan Province, calling it a war crime.
At the annual meeting on the rights of the child during the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council, Bahreini said the responsibility for the school attack unequivocally lies with the U.S. and Israel, stressing that those who committed these barbaric acts of killing children must be held accountable.
After the attack, Bahreini wrote respectively to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk and UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children Najat Maalla M'jid, calling for condemnation and investigation into the crime committed by the U.S. and Israel.
In a joint statement on Monday, six Democratic senators said the school attack was likely carried out by U.S. forces. If proven true, the incident would rank among the worst civilian casualty incidents in decades of U.S. military action in the Middle East, and they demanded a thorough and fair review.
The death toll from the school attack was 165, and most of the victims were girls around 10 years old.
A CNN report on Sunday stated that experts, after analyzing newly surfaced video footage, believe that the missiles located near the strike site are consistent with the U.S. Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM), a model not in the Israeli military's inventory.
Iran denounces US-Israeli attack on elementary school as war crime
Iran denounces US-Israeli attack on elementary school as war crime
