News24 | UN condemns Iran war, shocked at strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school, killing 160

Civil volunteer forces clean up the rubble outside a government building site heavily bombed and destroyed by Israel and US forces during Operation Epic Fury, very close to Revolution Square in Tehran, Iran.

• A UN investigation condemned the Iran war.
• It expressed shock over the attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school.
• US President Donald Trump hailed the US performance in the war.

An independent United Nations probe investigating rights violations in Iran condemned on Wednesday attacks by Israel and the United States on Iran as well ‌as Tehran’s retaliatory strikes across the region, saying they violated the UN Charter.

The UN Charter bans the use of 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 UN Independent ⁠International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran said in a statement.

It also expressed deep shock over a strike that hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab in southern Iran on Saturday, the first day of the US and Israeli attacks.

Most of the victims appear to have been schoolgirls aged 7 to 12, it said.

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The Pentagon on Wednesday identified two more soldiers who were killed in the war against Iran.

The two Army Reserve soldiers died ‌on Sunday in a drone attack on a US military facility in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, that also killed four other reservists.

The Pentagon said Major Jeffrey O’Brien, 45, of Iowa, was killed in the attack and announced ⁠the “believed death” of Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, California.

Positive identification of Marzan will be completed by the medical examiner, the Pentagon said.

AFP reported that US President Donald Trump hailed the US performance in the war, saying Iran’s leaders were rapidly being killed, and vowing to push on.

“We’re doing well on the war front, to put it mildly. Somebody said on a scale of 10, where would you rate it? I said about a 15,” Trump told a gathering of tech bosses.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that Israel and Washington had made “historic gains” in the war.

Earlier on Wednesday, a separate UN panel of experts said more than 160 children were killed, citing reports.

The UN fact-finding probe said the Iranian population was now caught between ‌a large-scale ⁠military campaign that may go on for weeks and a government in Tehran which has a long record of human rights abuses.

Tens of thousands of people were detained and face torture and the death penalty, the UN probe said, following a brutal crackdown on ⁠protests that began on 28 December 2025, in response to the country’s economic crisis.

It said protesters currently detained in prisons could be put at risk from any US-Israeli strikes.

A ⁠British couple jailed in Iran described on Tuesday explosions shaking Evin prison where they are being held and damage to their wing as the conflict intensifies.

The statement ⁠said the killing of dozens of Iranian officials - who have included Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - in the US-Israeli airstrikes was not an acceptable means to deliver justice under international law.