Geneva, March 27 -- Iran on Friday accused the United States and Israel of carrying out a "deliberate and intentional" attack on a girls' school in southern Iran, calling it a "war crime" and "crime against humanity," during an address to the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Abbas Araghchi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, warned that continued silence by the international community would undermine global institutions and norms.

"The United Nations and the core values it embodies. are at serious stake," he said, urging member states to "call out the aggressors and let them know that the community of States. hold them accountable for the abhorrent crimes they are committing against Iranians.""Iran has ...