White House Rejects UN Report Alleging United States War Crimes In Iran

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    <h2>Showbiz White House Rejects UN Report Alleging United States War Crimes In Iran</h2>
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                <span>A bird's-eye view of the funeral service held for Minab schoolchildren eliminated in an air campaign on February 28.</span>
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The White House has actually declined a report by a UN independent fact-finding objective that stated there were sensible premises to think the United States had actually dedicated war criminal offenses throughout 2 air campaign in Iran.

The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran stated in a report launched on September 17 that there were sensible premises to think United States forces devoted the war criminal activity of releasing indiscriminate attacks throughout strikes on a school in Minab and a sports center in Lamerd on February 28.

The 2 strikes eliminated a minimum of 178 civilians, consisting of females and kids, according to the objective. The Minab strike hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School and eliminated more than 150 individuals, consisting of about 120 schoolchildren.

A different strike on a sports complex and surrounding house in Lamerd eliminated 22 civilians.

In a scathing written action to the report, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly declined the findings, stating: “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.”

Kelly likewise stated the UN Human Rights Council had “accomplished nothing for human rights while spouting unserious nonsense for decades.”

United States authorities have actually consistently stated military operations are performed in accordance with the law of armed dispute which an examination is continuous.

The report is set up to be officially provided to the 47-member UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 21.

The objective likewise discovered affordable premises to think that Iranian authorities dedicated criminal activities versus mankind throughout their crackdown on across the country demonstrations in December-January. It pointed out illegal killings, approximate detention, abuse, and other inhumane acts dedicated as part of a prevalent and organized attack versus civilians.

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    <h2>Showbiz IRGC Says It Struck Another Oil Tanker In Strait of Hormuz</h2>
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps( IRGC)Navy stated on September 18 that it had actually struck another oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, setting the vessel on fire and requiring it to stop.

In a declaration, the IRGC determined the tanker as the Trend, cruising under the Togolese flag. It stated the vessel was struck on the night of September 17 while trying what Iran referred to as an “illegal” passage through the essential waterway.

The IRGC stated the tanker ignited and was stopped. It did not supply details about the vessel’s team, freight, possible casualties, or its existing condition.

There was no instant independent verification of the reported strike or fire.

Within the previous 24 hours, the UK Maritime Trade Operations Organization (UKMTO) has actually released 3 reports of security occurrences including vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, consisting of one including “a tanker being hit by an unknown projectile causing a fire onboard which has since been extinguished.”

“All crew are reported safe and environmental impact is unconfirmed at present,” the UKMTO included.

It stays uncertain whether any of the UKMTO events included the very same vessel determined by the IRGC as the Trend.

The IRGC Navy stated it preserves control of the Strait of Hormuz and cautioned that vessels trying what it thinks about unlawful passage would deal with damage.

The United States has actually contested Iran’s claims of control over the waterway and has actually been helping industrial vessels browsing the strait amidst the dispute.

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    <h2>Showbiz South Korea Rules Out Military Involvement in Iran War</h2>
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South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has actually dismissed sending out soldiers or military properties to the Middle East in a manner that would include Seoul in the war with Iran, however stated South Korea might take procedures to secure industrial shipping and oil deliveries through the area.

“Let it be clear: There will be no dispatch of troops that will lead to involvement in a conflict. There will be no engagement or involvement in war,” Lee stated at a televised interview on September 18.

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                <span>South Korean President Lee Jae Myung speaks at an interview in Seoul on September 18.</span>
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He stated South Korea would preserve the concept of not dispatching military properties in such a way that might include it in the dispute.

Lee stated Seoul however required to carry out “the minimum level of activities” to secure South Korean people and the transport path for petroleum, as other nations are doing.

South Korea has actually been thinking about whether to contribute military properties to efforts to protect the Strait of Hormuz amidst United States pressure. Lee’s remarks clarified that any such steps would not include South Korea in the war.

In a telephone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi on September 11, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun worried Seoul’s ongoing involvement in global efforts to make sure flexibility of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. The call was made at Araqchi’s demand.

On September 7, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei cautioned that any foreign military existence or involvement in operations in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz would be considered direct assistance for the assailant and would have “serious consequences.”

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    <h2>Showbiz Trump Says He Faces Decision On Whether to'Annihilate'Iranian Regime</h2>
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United States President Donald Trump stated on September 17 that he is approaching a significant choice over whether the United States ought to resume massive attacks versus Iran.

Speaking with Axios, Trump stated: “I have a big decision coming up. Do I want to go in and annihilate them [the Iranian regime] or do I not? It’s a big decision. Anything could happen with me.”

The remarks came ahead of an organized conference in between Trump and leaders of the 6 Gulf states– Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman– on September 22 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Axios reported that the conference might assist form the next stage of the war, consisting of whether diplomacy resumes or military action intensifies. Trump stated he wished to hear straight from local leaders about the next actions.

“I want to know what their situation is and how they are doing. We have been providing them with a lot of support and protection,” he informed Axios.

Trump likewise stated he was “very pleased” that the United States blockade had actually avoided Iranian oil exports.

“Since we started, not a single ship has gone to Iran. They tried and we blew them up,” he stated, according to Axios.

Trump has likewise stated Iran called his federal government and was “very keen” to reach an arrangement, and revealed hope that the war was nearing an end. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei, nevertheless, turned down talks on September 15, stating: “No talks until Iran’s conditions are met. Period!”

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    <h2>Showbiz Iran Expels Swedish Diplomat In Response Expulsion Of Embassy Employee In Stockholm</h2>
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry on September 17 offered a Swedish diplomat in Tehran 48 hours to leave the nation.

The relocation followed the Swedish federal government on September 16 expelled a worker of the Iranian Embassy in Stockholm and summoned Iran’s ambassador to the Foreign Ministry.

According to the Swedish federal government, the Iranian embassy worker was expelled for doing something about it “incompatible with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.”

Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer stated the choice was associated with declared Iranian activities targeting Jewish and Israeli interests in Sweden. Swedish authorities have actually likewise raised issues about supposed Iranian activities versus opposition figures.

Iran declined Sweden’s accusations and condemned the expulsion of the Iranian diplomat as unjustified. The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Sweden’s ambassador to Tehran to lodge an official demonstration and notified him that a Swedish diplomat had actually been bought to leave within 48 hours.

The expulsions mark a mutual diplomatic escalation in between Sweden and Iran, with each nation acting versus a diplomat or embassy worker of the other within a day of the other’s choice.

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    <h2>Showbiz United States Allows Iranian Delegation To Attend UN Assembly In New York</h2>
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The United States has actually enabled an Iranian delegation to go to the UN General Assembly in New York next week, even as the seven-month-old war in between the 2 nations continues.

“Consistent with our host country obligations, the core delegation from the Iranian regime will be able to attend UN General Assembly High Level Week,” the State Department stated in a September 17 declaration.

It included that the delegation would be smaller sized than last year’s and that its members would deal with travel limitations and restrictions on purchases of high-end products and other items in the United States.

The relocation comes as settlements in between Washington and Tehran have actually efficiently stalled in current months, with United States and Iranian forces exchanging strikes and essential concerns in the dispute staying unsettled.

Delivering through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab Strait off Yemen stays limited and under risk from attacks by Iran and Yemen’s Tehran-aligned Houthi rebels, while disagreements over Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic rocket programs position another barrier to a worked out contract.

On September 17, Iran’s allies, Russia and China, banned a UN Security Council proposition to extend the required of the panel of professionals keeping an eye on nuclear-related sanctions versus Iran.

With reporting by Reuters.

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    <h2>Showbiz United States Sanctions Iranian Crypto Exchange Over Hormuz Payments</h2>
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The United States enforced sanctions on an Iranian cryptocurrency exchange managed by approved investor Babak Zanjani on September 17, implicating it of processing payments connected to safe passage for ships through the Strait of Hormuz and carrying numerous countless dollars to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) stated Iran’s Hormuz Safe Marine Services Authority had actually utilized BitBank given that June to move payments it got to the Iranian federal government.

In Between June and July, Zanjani utilized the exchange to assist in transfers of numerous countless dollars in Bitcoin to the IRGC, OFAC stated

“Today’s classifications of Iranian digital possession facilities make completely clear that efforts to fund the Iranian routine utilizing cryptocurrencies are within OFAC’s reach,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated. “If you support the Iranian routine, the Department of the Treasury will sanction you.”

OFAC likewise designated BitBank software application designer Pishtaz Simorgh Electronic Trade Company and 3 Zanjani partners– Hossein Ali Zaker Hossein, Mohammad Mahdi Zaker Hossein, and Seyed Adel Heidari.

Zanjani, a long time figure in Iranian sanctions-evasion networks, was sentenced to death for embezzlement in 2016 before his sentence was travelled in 2024. He later on reemerged as a backer of government-linked financial tasks.

In January, Washington approved Zanjani and 2 of his digital-asset jobs, implicating them of laundering cash for the IRGC, and in July targeted 9 more business connected to him in Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

With reporting by Reuters

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    <h2>Showbiz Billions Go Missing From Iran's Secret Oil Cash Network</h2>
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Billions of dollars in oil income are missing out on from Iran’s coffers. At the center of the scandal are shadowy intermediaries called “trustees” who assist Tehran offer oil, steel, petrochemicals, and other products abroad while bypassing worldwide sanctions. The intermediaries Iran utilized have actually not all been handing over the sales earnings– rather, lots of have actually absconded with it, to the tune of over $11 billion. Roya Maleki from RFE/RL’s Negah-e-Farda (Iran Tomorrow) program discusses. (Video by RFE/RL’s Radio Farda, Roya Maleki, and Will Tizard)

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    <h2>Showbiz Iran Human Rights Organization Documents Over 4,000 People Killed In January Protests </h2>
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The Iranian Human Rights group (IHRNGO) has released a list recording more than 4,200 individuals it states were eliminated throughout the mass across the country demonstrations in Iran that started in late December 2025 and continued into January. The company stated the list was assembled after months of gathering and cross-checking details, confirming victims’ identities and evaluating comprehensive documentary proof.

According to the Norway-based IHRNGO, a minimum of 420 females and 281 individuals under the age of 18 are amongst those recorded. Twenty-five victims were under 14, while the youngest determined victim was 4 1/2 months old. The company worried that its figure of more than 4,200 represents just the deaths it has actually had the ability to record and recognize and ought to not be considered a last death toll.

IHRNGO stated across the country Internet and interactions shutdowns, pressure on victims’ households, and restricted access to health centers and forensic centers have actually prevented efforts to develop the complete scale of the killings.

Iranian authorities formerly revealed that 3,117 individuals had actually passed away throughout the demonstrations. IHRNGO states its examination discovered that the main list was insufficient, consisting of names appearing on some provincial lists and in state media that were missing from the list held by the President’s Office.

The company determined January 8 and 9 as the most dangerous days, stating 3,356 recorded deaths took place throughout that duration. Amnesty International has actually individually recorded prevalent shootings by security forces throughout the crackdown, consisting of from streets and roofs, and reported that protesters were regularly shot in the head and upper torso.

IHRNGO likewise reported a minimum of 29 executions connected to the demonstrations and determined 100 protesters sentenced to death, while alerting that the real figures might be greater. The company stated confirmation of its list stays continuous.

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