Iran’s Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate a US missile attack on a wedding reception in the country’s southern province of Hormozgan, which killed at least five people and wounded 68 others.
The deadly incident occurred when shrapnel from a US attack struck a residential building where a wedding reception was being held in the city of Kouhestak, in Hormozgan’s Sirik County on Tuesday.
In a letter to the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor, the IRCS said the attack raised serious concerns under international humanitarian law and warranted an independent, impartial, thorough and effective investigation.
“Given the reported civilian character of the location as the venue of a family wedding ceremony, as well as the presence of civilians at the site, the incident raises serious concerns under international humanitarian law and warrants an independent, impartial, thorough, and effective investigation,” the organization said.
The IRCS said preliminary information initially indicated that four people had been killed and 67 others wounded. Iranian health officials later raised the toll to at least five fatalities and 68 injuries, with a child among those killed.
The IRCS warned that the number of casualties could rise because some of those wounded were in critical condition.
In a letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, the President of the Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran has called for legal action following last night’s U.S. missile strike on a wedding ceremony in Kohestak, Hormozgan. pic.twitter.com/5zpRLtrapF
— جمعیت هلالاحمر ایران (@Iranian_RCS) September 2, 2026
The organization said the attack could entail individual criminal responsibility under international criminal law if the relevant elements established under the Rome Statute were met.
“Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that it will cause incidental loss of civilian life or injury to civilians that is clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated may give rise to individual criminal responsibility under international criminal law,” the IRCS said.
The organization further noted that parties to a conflict are required to take all feasible precautions when planning and carrying out military operations to verify the nature of targets and minimize civilian casualties.
It warned that civilians and civilian populations must not be made the object of attack and that indiscriminate attacks are prohibited.
According to the IRCS, an independent investigation could determine whether the attack violated international humanitarian law.
It said that if the investigation finds that the wedding venue and those present were civilians and that there was no lawful military target at the site, the attack would amount to a war crime.
The organization called on the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor to receive and assess information concerning the attack, preserve and evaluate relevant evidence, and take appropriate measures within its legal mandate if the jurisdictional requirements under the Rome Statute were met.
The US strike on the wedding reception came amid a wider wave of US attacks on southern Iran.
Elsewhere in Sirik County, the US military attacked a fishing pier and a port authority tower, according to Iranian officials.
An American strike also targeted a fishmeal factory on Qeshm Island in Hormozgan Province, Iranian reports said.
Tuesday’s strike on the wedding ceremony recalled the US military’s fatal attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Hormozgan Province, where US Tomahawk missiles struck on February 28, killing more than 160 schoolchildren.
The attack has drawn condemnation from Iranian officials, with Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf likening the United States to “Satan.”
Qalibaf said in a post on X on Wednesday, “If a power acts like Satan, picks targets like Satan, and kills like Satan, it’s Satan.”
The country’s armed forces retaliated by striking US bases in several regional countries, warning that the United States will face severe consequences for its latest acts of aggression.
