White House's EXPLOSIVE Response to War Crime Allegations From UN-Backed Report

The White House came out swinging against a United Nations-sponsored investigation that found, quote, reasonable grounds to conclude the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran. The probe, stood up by the global body's notorious Human Rights Council, focused on U.S. airstrikes that allegedly hit a school in Minab and a clearly identifiable sports complex and residential area in Lamerde, killing 178 civilians, the investigators said. The mission found reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in the loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects, a U.N. statement read. The Minab school strike reportedly resulted from the U.S. military relying upon outdated intelligence and mistakenly identifying the school building as part of an adjacent military installation. The U.N. panel said that the bombing of the school constituted a war crime because the United States, quote, acted willfully, that is, with the requisite mental element of recklessness. The White House unloaded on the investigation in a scathing response. The only party in this conflict that has committed war crimes is the Iranian regime, which has murdered thousands of its own people, killed Americans overseas, executed acts of terrorism in the Strait of Hormuz, and launched indiscriminate attacks against its neighbors in the region, White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said. Kelly also tore into the council, which she said has, quote, accomplished nothing for human rights while spouting unserious nonsense for decades. The 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council has long been the subject of scrutiny, as countries with well-documented histories of severe human rights abuses regularly secure seats on the council. Critics argue some states with strong regional or economic leverage, such as China, actively seek membership not to promote human rights, but to shield themselves from international scrutiny and block resolutions against their allies. One of the most heavily criticized examples of this was in 2022. Despite a damning report from the U.N.'s own Human Rights Office concluding that China may have engaged in crimes against humanity with its mass arbitrary detention of Uyghurs, the council voted against a motion to simply hold a debate on the issue, let alone establish a formal investigation after intense diplomatic lobbying by Beijing. And in October 2021, the council took the unprecedented step of voting to dismantle an already existing investigation into war crimes in Yemen following an aggressive lobbying campaign by Saudi Arabia and its allies. This marked the first time in the council's 15-year history that a resolution was defeated. Regarding the recent investigative report on the U.S., the 47-member council will formally receive it on Monday, September 21. This comes as President Trump and other world leaders prepare to attend meetings held as part of the annual U.N. General Assembly slated to begin next week.