UN mission finds reasonable grounds to believe U.S. committed war crimes in Iran

The U.S. may have committed war crimes in two airstrikes in Iran , including a mass-casualty strike on a school for which Washington has yet to claim responsibility, a UN fact-finding mission said Thursday.

The big picture: The administration has waged a campaign of aggressive, norm-busting war-fighting, with the president repeatedly threatening to hit civilian infrastructure in his pressure campaign on Tehran.

The president has shrugged off questions about his attacks on Iran and previously said he wasn't concerned if his threats could amount to war crimes.

The White House and Pentagon did not immediately respond to Axios' request to respond to the UN team's findings.

What's inside: The UN mission found "reasonable grounds to believe" the U.S. carried out the Feb.

28 strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in southern Iran that reportedly killed more than 120 children.

Back in May, U.S.

Central Command Adm.

Brad Cooper told the House Armed Services Committee the Minab attack "correlated" with a U.S. strike.

And in June, President Trump said "nobody did that on purpose" and that "mistakes are made." The UN team found reasonable grounds to believe the U.S. carried out both the school strike and another on a sports center.

Both, the UN report said, amount to war crime of launching an indiscriminate attack.

CENTCOM has denied carrying out the sports center attack.

What they're saying: The "U.S. failed in its obligation to do everything feasible to verify that it was a military objective," the mission's report said of the school strike.

The mission sought information on the strikes and attempted to meet with U.S. officials but received no response, the report said.