Iran Red Crescent urges ICC probe into deadly US strike on wedding party

Outrage grows over US strike that killed four people and wounded 67 at a wedding party in Kuhestak.

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The Iranian Red Crescent Society has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate a missile attack by the United States that hit a wedding party in the southern town of Kuhestak, killing at least four people and wounding dozens.

In a letter to the court on Wednesday, the humanitarian group said the attack warrants “an independent, impartial, thorough, and effective investigation” given the “civilian character of the location”.

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The strike, which took place at 9:30pm local time (18:00 GMT) on Tuesday, killed at least four people and wounded 67, the group said, warning that the number of deaths may increase “given the critical condition of some of the injured”.

Those killed were two women and two children, aged four and 16. An Iranian official said most of the wounded were also women and children.

The Red Crescent said the attack could amount to a “war crime”, noting that international law prohibits directing attacks against civilians or civilian objects, or launching a strike while knowing it could cause disproportionate civilian harm.

An injured victim lies in a hospital bed, following a reported attack near a wedding, near Sirik, a coastal area on the Strait of Hormuz, Hormozgan province, Iran, September 2, 2026 [Razieh Poudat/ISNA via WANA]

The US Central Command said it was aware of the reports about the attack in Iranian media, but said it does not attack civilians.

Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the claim, with spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei citing past US strikes on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. He noted on X that such attacks have also been portrayed in US television shows.

“The reality is so horrifying that even American propaganda has never dared make the claim [the CENTCOM] is making today,” he wrote. “Sirik is not a story. The civilians are real. The victims are real.”

Neither the US nor Iran are party to the ICC’s Rome Statute.

But Dawn, a human rights group, said Iran could still accept the court’s ad hoc jurisdiction over crimes committed on its territory from a specific date. “By filing such a declaration, set to the beginning of the war, Iran would grant the ICC jurisdiction over every strike on Iranian soil,” the group said.

The strike in Kuhestak came as the US launched a wave of attacks on Iranian coastal areas near the blockaded Strait of Hormuz, accusing Tehran of attempting to launch strikes against US troops and commercial shipping in the waterway.

Iran’s Ministry of Health said at least 18 people were killed in Tuesday’s strikes, while 142 were wounded.

UN urged to condemn attack

Iran’s envoy to the United Nations, Gholamhossein Darzi, called on the UN Security Council to condemn the Kuhestak attack.

“The Islamic Republic strongly condemns this horrific and appalling crime,” he wrote, adding that “the deliberate targeting and killing of civilians, including children, constitutes a grave violation of the fundamental rules of international humanitarian law and amounts to a war crime.”

Iranian authorities say at least 3,468 people were killed in the initial phase of the war, which began on February 28 and ended with a ceasefire on April 8. A second round of hostilities, from July 27 to August 24, killed a further 59 people and wounded 666.

The deadliest single attack of the war, in terms of civilian casualties, destroyed an elementary school in Minab on February 28, the war’s first day. At least 156 people, including 120 children, were killed. A separate strike that day hit a sports hall in Lamerd, killing 21 people, including four children.

Over more than six months of war, the US and Israel have also struck oil and gas facilities, fuel depots, steel and petrochemical factories, airports, ports, bridges, power installations, medical centres and water facilities across Iran.

美国空袭导致库赫斯塔克一场婚礼上四人死亡、67人受伤，引发众怒。

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该人道主义组织周三在致法院的一封信中表示，鉴于“事发地点的平民性质”，此次袭击事件需要“进行独立、公正、彻底和有效的调查”。

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该组织称，周二晚上9点30分（格林尼治标准时间18:00）发生的罢工造成至少4人死亡，67人受伤，并警告说，鉴于一些伤者的病情危重，死亡人数可能会增加。

遇难者包括两名妇女和两名儿童，分别为4岁和16岁。一名伊朗官员表示，伤者大多也是妇女和儿童。

红新月会表示，此次袭击可能构成“战争罪”，并指出国际法禁止针对平民或民用目标发动袭击，或在明知可能造成不成比例的平民伤害的情况下发动袭击。

2026年9月2日，在伊朗霍尔木兹甘省霍尔木兹海峡沿岸锡里克附近，一名受伤者躺在医院病床上。据报道，袭击事件发生在婚礼附近。[Razieh Poudat/ISNA via WANA]

美国中央司令部表示，他们已经注意到伊朗媒体关于此次袭击的报道，但表示他们不会袭击平民。

伊朗外交部驳斥了这一说法，发言人伊斯梅尔·巴盖伊援引了美国过去在伊拉克和阿富汗对平民的袭击。他指出，美国电视节目中也曾描绘过此类袭击。

他写道：“事实如此骇人听闻，就连美国的宣传机构也从未敢像（中央司令部）今天这样宣称。锡里克事件并非虚构，平民是真实存在的，受害者也是真实存在的。”

美国和伊朗都不是国际刑事法院《罗马规约》的缔约国。

但人权组织“黎明报”表示，伊朗仍然可以接受国际刑事法院对其境内发生的、自特定日期起生效的罪行的临时管辖权。“通过提交一份以战争开始日期为界的声明，伊朗将赋予国际刑事法院对其领土上发生的每一次袭击的管辖权，”该组织表示。

在库赫斯塔克发生的这次袭击正值美国对被封锁的霍尔木兹海峡附近的伊朗沿海地区发动一系列袭击之际，美国指责德黑兰企图袭击该水道上的美军和商船。

伊朗卫生部表示，周二的空袭造成至少 18 人死亡，142 人受伤。

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伊朗常驻联合国代表戈拉姆侯赛因·达尔齐呼吁联合国安理会谴责库赫斯塔克袭击事件。

“伊斯兰共和国强烈谴责这一骇人听闻的罪行，”他写道，“蓄意以平民（包括儿童）为目标进行杀戮，严重违反了国际人道主义法的基本规则，构成战争罪。”

伊朗当局称，战争初期阶段至少有3468人丧生，该阶段始于2月28日，于4月8日以停火告终。7月27日至8月24日的第二轮敌对行动又造成59人死亡，666人受伤。

就平民伤亡而言，战争中最致命的单次袭击发生在2月28日，即战争爆发的第一天，地点是米纳布的一所小学。袭击摧毁了这所小学，造成至少156人死亡，其中包括120名儿童。当天另一次袭击还击中了拉默德的一座体育馆，造成21人死亡，其中包括4名儿童。

在长达六个多月的战争中，美国和以色列还袭击了伊朗各地的石油和天然气设施、燃料库、钢铁和石化工厂、机场、港口、桥梁、电力设施、医疗中心和供水设施。