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The Same Week a U.N.-Backed Panel Found "Reasonable Grounds" to Believe the United States Committed War Crimes in Trump's Iran War — Bombing an Elementary School and a Residential Area and Killing at Least 178 Civilians, Including Women and Children, With Missiles That Scattered Anti-Personnel Tungsten Pellets — Trump Told the Public, Yet Again, That Iran "Wants a Deal" and the War Was "Hopefully" Nearly Over, a Claim Iran Rejected the Same Day
On September 17, 2026, the U.N. Human Rights Council's independent fact-finding mission on Iran — chaired by the Bangladeshi jurist Sara Hossain — reported "reasonable grounds" to believe the United States committed war crimes in two airstrikes in southern Iran on February 28. The strikes killed at least 178 civilians, including women and children. One hit an elementary school in Minab; the other hit a sports complex and residential area in Lamerd with precision-guided missiles that scattered tungsten pellets, an anti-personnel effect designed to kill people rather than destroy structures. The panel's report is not binding, but it adds to the body of international evidence that could one day be used in court — and, notably, the same mission also accused Iran's theocratic government of crimes against humanity against its own people, so this is not a one-sided indictment. On the very day the war-crimes findings landed, Trump was telling the public something else entirely: that Iran "wants a deal" and the nearly seven-month war was "hopefully" nearing its end. Hours later, an Iranian official rejected talks until "Iran's conditions are met," and there have in fact been no negotiations since June. The juxtaposition is the entry. The war Trump launched on a threat the intelligence never found has now produced credible allegations of American war crimes — a bombed school, 178 dead civilians — and his response is to narrate a peace that the other side says isn't happening.
A Guardian Investigation Found ICE Force-Fed Hunger-Striking Detainees — Restraining Them and Pushing a Tube Through the Nose Into the Stomach, One Kurdish Asylum Seeker for Eight Months, an Afghan Man Daily for Nearly Six — Using Court Orders, on People With No Lawyers, to Break Strikes Protesting Worm-Infested Food and Medical Neglect. Doctors and the UN Call It Torture
A Guardian investigation built on court records found that the Trump administration tried to subject at least 10 hunger-striking immigrants in ICE detention to involuntary medical procedures, including force-feeding — the practice of restraining a person and forcing a tube through the nose, down the esophagus, and into the stomach to deliver liquid nutrition against their will. At least three, and possibly five, were actually force-fed; five others abandoned their hunger strikes at the last moment rather than endure it. The durations are staggering: a Kurdish asylum seeker at ICE's Port Isabel Service Processing Center in Los Fresnos, Texas was force-fed for eight months; another striker at the same facility for six; an Afghan man was force-fed daily for nearly six months, from September 2025 through March 2026. ICE obtained court orders to authorize the procedures, and in six cases reviewed the detainees had no legal representation. Some were also placed in solitary confinement. The hunger strikes they were being punished for breaking were protests against the detention conditions themselves — overcrowding, spoiled and worm-infested food and water, inadequate medical care, and alleged physical and psychological abuse. Force-feeding a competent hunger striker is recognized by the World Medical Association as a violation of medical ethics and by United Nations experts as cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment that can amount to torture. Nearly 50 Democratic lawmakers have demanded a watchdog investigation. DHS disputes the abuse reports and says detainees receive adequate care.
Told the UN That Windmills Are "Pathetic" and Carbon Footprints Are "a Hoax"
At the UN General Assembly, Trump dismissed wind energy as "pathetic," called carbon footprints "a hoax," and warned nations that failing to abandon the "green energy scam" would cause national failure — while the rest of the world accelerates the renewable transition.
World Leaders Laughed at Trump at the UN General Assembly
Trump boasted to the UN that his administration had "accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country." The entire hall of world leaders burst into laughter. Trump: "I didn't expect that reaction."