New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- UN-backed human rights experts have found "reasonable grounds" to believe that the United States committed war crimes in two deadly strikes in Iran, including an attack on a school.

The findings were published by the UN-mandated Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, which was established by the UN Human Rights Council in 2022. The mission, chaired by Bangladeshi jurist Sara Hossain, said the allegations centred on two US strikes carried out on February 28, at the beginning of the US-Israeli war against Iran.

According to the experts, the two strikes were in Minab and Lamerd, both in southern Iran.

The first strike involved the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, where a US missile struck a clearl...