Esmaeil Baghaei was commenting on an American airstrike that hit a family home and killed three people, including a two-year-old, last week
US airstrikes on residential areas and other non-military targets in Iran constitute “war crimes” for which Washington must be held accountable, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei told RT at a press briefing on Monday.
His remarks came after a US airstrike hit a residential neighborhood on Qeshm Island in Iran’s Hormozgan Province last week, leveling a family home and killing three people, including a two-year-old child.
Iran said the strike hit a densely populated working-class neighborhood, with footage from the scene appearing to support that claim. US Central Command, however, insisted it had targeted Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) positions in retaliation for the force firing “multiple ballistic missiles” at US troops across the region earlier that week.
Baghaei was commenting in particular on a New York Times report claiming the neighborhood was struck by a 2,000-pound Mark 84 bomb – one of the largest conventional weapons in the US arsenal – citing analysis of videos, photographs, and satellite imagery.
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