An independent United Nations probe investigating rights violations in Iran condemned on Wednesday attacks by Israel and america on Iran in addition to Tehran’s retaliatory strikes across the region, saying they violated the UN Charter.
The United Nations Charter bans using force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.
“These attacks, which were followed by Iran’s retaliatory strikes across the region, run counter to the UN Charter,” the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran said in a press release.
It also expressed deep shock over a strike that hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls school in Minab in southern Iran on Saturday, the primary day of the U.S. and Israeli attacks.
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A lot of the victims appear to have been schoolgirls aged seven to 12, it said.
Earlier on Wednesday a separate U.N. panel of experts said greater than 160 children were killed, citing reports.
The U.N. fact-finding probe said the Iranian population was now caught between a large-scale military campaign that will go on for weeks and a government in Tehran which has a protracted record of human rights abuses.
Tens of 1000’s of individuals were detained and face torture and the death penalty, the U.N. probe said, following a brutal crackdown on protests that began on December 28, 2025, in response to the country’s economic crisis.
It said protesters currently detained in prisons may very well be put in danger from any U.S.-Israeli strikes. A British couple jailed in Iran described on Tuesday explosions shaking Evin prison where they’re being held and damage to their wing because the conflict intensifies.
The statement said the killing of dozens of Iranian officials – who’ve included Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – within the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes was not a suitable means to deliver justice under international law.