Iran accuses the USA of having committed a "war crime" after killing four people at a wedding

WashingtonIran has denounced that the United States allegedly committed "war crimes" after one of its missiles killed four people early this morning at a wedding being held in the south of the country. The Islamic Republic has also counted at least 68 injured following the crossfire that the Revolutionary Guard and US forces engaged in on Tuesday in a resumption of hostilities in the region.

According to Iranian media, among the four dead at the wedding being held in Sirik are a four-year-old boy, Amir-Ali Karimi, and a 16-year-old teenager, Mohammad Mollahi. The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmaeil Baghaei, has denounced that this is a "war crime" and accuses the spokesperson for the United States Central Command (Centcom), Tim Hawkins, of trying to shirk responsibility. "Tim Hawkins, Centcom spokesperson, claims – while denying the brutal war crime in Sirik – that the United States does not attack civilians!", he wrote on X. In another post, the president of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Ghalibaf, also condemned the events and branded the US as "the Great Satan".

Early Wednesday, hostilities between the US and Iran broke out again with new waves of attacks that set off air raid sirens in Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Iraq. The victims and wounded that Tehran reports are the consequence of the initial barrage executed by the US military to fulfill Donald Trump's promise to "hit hard" the country. Although Centcom reported the attack, it at no point specified the location of the targets, which it described as military objectives.

"United States forces have attacked targets of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC], including air defense sites, radar systems, maritime assets and facilities, mine-laying capabilities, and communications sites," said the military command, based in Florida, in a statement published on X.

Before the count of wounded and dead was known, Iran had already responded with a new barrage of missiles against US positions in the region. The US Marine Corps base in Jordan, Camp Titin, was the target of an "intense ballistic missile attack," according to Iran's Revolutionary Guard as reported by the Iranian agency Tasnim. Tehran claims to have killed a large number of American soldiers – Washington says that for now it has no record of any casualties – and asserts that it has destroyed US military equipment in attacks against American bases on Jordanian territory. In Kuwait, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates, Iranian drones and missiles were also intercepted.

Trump does not seek to renegotiate

The new spiral of violence that the region is experiencing began this past weekend, when on Sunday at dawn Centcom confirmed that it had bombed the Iranian island of Larak, located in the Strait of Hormuz. It was the first attack after a month in which crossfire in the region had stopped. The target, according to US forces, was two platforms from which the Revolutionary Guard was launching mines to maintain the blockade of the maritime passage.

This Wednesday morning, the US president assured that he is no longer looking to resume negotiations with the Iranian government. "I could not care less if they sign or not an agreement that they see as worthless," he wrote on Truth Social. In his opinion, Tehran "is only prolonging the inevitable," in the face of a national economy that "is totally collapsing." Following this alleged collapse, the American president wonders "when will the Iranian people rise up to fight."

Later, Trump refused to answer a reporter's question who asked him if the CIA is considering arming the protesters against the regime. At the beginning of March, several reports already appeared pointing out that the US spy agency and the Mossad were considering arming the Kurdish opposition to provoke a fall of the regime from within.