Iranian supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei has criticised American and Israeli leaders for what he described as boasting about crimes committed against Iran, while calling for legal action in both domestic and international courts over deaths caused by the recent conflict.He also recalled what he described as war crimes committed against Iran, including the deaths of schoolgirls in Minab, urging authorities to pursue accountability through legal channels. “Physical & psychological damages inflicted on each individual of the Iranian nation in the 2nd & 3rd Imposed Wars, from child killings & war crimes in Minab & Lamerd to attacks on medical centres, is each a legal file that must be pursued in both domestic & international courts… From murdering newborns to our dear elderly population – & above all, the martyrdom of the peerless, unique gem of our era, our magnanimous, mujahid Leader – is each a file among thousands of major legal cases that must be earnestly pursued in domestic & international courts,” Khamenei said in a post on X. Khamenei also said statements by US and Israeli leaders amounted to admissions of wrongdoing.“The confessions and even brazen boasting of some of the leaders of the US-Zionist enemy regarding these crimes, are indisputably an admission of crime, and these effectively pave the way for the vindication of the [Iranian] nation’s rights that have been violated,” he added. The strike on Minab’s Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School occurred on February 28, the first day of the US-Israeli war with Iran, when the roof of a school collapsed, killing 156 civilians, including 120 schoolchildren.The victims also included 26 female teachers, one of whom was six months pregnant, along with seven parents, a school bus driver, and a technician from a nearby clinic, as cited by Tehran Times. Meanwhile, in a parallel development, Iran’s foreign ministry condemned US airstrikes carried out in the early hours of Sunday on several monitoring and surveillance facilities along the country’s southern coast.US president Donald Trump said on Saturday (local time) that American forces had struck Iranian missile and drone storage sites, as well as coastal radar installations, in retaliation for what he said were Iranian violations of the ceasefire. He also warned that the United States would “wipe out” Iran if the violations continued.Earlier, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said American forces had carried out additional strikes on multiple military targets in Iran under the direction of President Trump.In response, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Sunday that it had destroyed eight US military facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain in a joint missile and drone operation, describing the attacks as retaliation for a second wave of US strikes on Iranian targets.
