Trump's Iran Ceasefire: War Crime Concerns Persist

0:00It's April 8th. Vancouver News Today starts now. AI powered and ready. President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran late Tuesday, just hours before his own deadline, after pushing hard for them to reopen them. Straight of Hormuz. Experts in international law say this move likely stopped, what could have been clear, war crimes, like targeting civilian infrastructure on a massive. Scale. Earlier threats from Trump included vows to cripple Iran's power grid and bridges, which legal pros argue already skirt laws of war, even if not acted. On, the U.S. Defense Department manual Bands Intimidation Tactics meant to terrorize civilians, echoing rules in the 1949 Geneva Conventions, that America signed, veterans and professors of sounding alarms, calling the rhetoric horrifying and untraditional for diplomacy. A U.S. Army vet who advised top brass under Obama said dismissing war crime worries is flat-out dangerous, while U.N. spokespeople stressed no attacks.

1:01On essentials like water or power, even of dual use, new concerns linger over a strike that hit an Iranian girl school early in the conflict, killing 175, mostly kids. Investigations blame old intel, but groups like human rights watch push for probes into proportionality and leadership changes weakening oversight. For now, the White House hails the truth as a win, but experts mourn accountability could take years through courts or congress, urging all sides to, stick to global rules as talks push forward in Pakistan.