The UN Security Council will meet on Monday to discuss Israel’s attack on Iran, Switzerland, which chairs the UN Security Council, announced today, Reuters reports.
The Swiss UN mission stated that the meeting was requested by Iran with the support of Algeria, China and Russia.
“The actions of the Israeli regime pose a serious threat to international peace and security and further destabilize the already fragile region,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in a letter to the 15-member council.
As he wrote, the Islamic Republic of Iran, in accordance with the principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations and under international law, retains its inherent right to a legal and legitimate response to these criminal attacks at the appropriate time.
Scores of Israeli jets carried out three waves of strikes before dawn on Saturday against missile factories and other sites near Tehran and in western Iran, Israel’s military said. It was in retaliation for Iran’s Oct. 1 attack on Israel with about 200 ballistic missiles, and Israel warned its heavily armed archenemy not to retaliate after the latest attack.
Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon rejected Iran’s complaint to the United Nations, saying today that Iran is “trying to work against us in the diplomatic arena with the ridiculous claim that Israel has violated international law.”
“As we have repeatedly repeated, we have the right and duty to defend ourselves and we will use all the means at our disposal to protect the citizens of Israel,” said Danon.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to “all parties to cease all military actions, including in Gaza and Lebanon, make maximum efforts to prevent an all-out regional war and return to the path of diplomacy,” his spokesman said in a statement.
