Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations
United Nations, September 29 (RHC)-- Iran has called on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to convene an emergency meeting to address the Israeli regime’s ongoing deadly aggression across the region, which recently led to the assassination of Hezbollah’s Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Amir Saeid Iravani, the Islamic Republic’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations, made the request in a letter addressed to the UNSC on Saturday. A day earlier, the regime embarked on intense airstrikes against Lebanon’s capital Beirut, causing the martyrdom of the leader of the Lebanese resistance movement alongside many others.
The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance group has confirmed the assassination of its leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in massive airstrikes against Beirut on Friday evening.
The assassination came amid the Israeli regime’s escalation against Lebanon and genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
Iravani denounced the unbridled aggression as “war crime and crime against humanity.” He said the UNSC had to convene the meeting “to address Israel's terrorist aggression and the continuous atrocities perpetrated by the warmongering Israeli regime in Lebanon and across the region.”
“These brazen acts of aggression…pose a grave threat to regional and international peace and security, pushing the entire region into an all-out catastrophe,” he cautioned.
The spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry says inaction against the crimes of the Israeli regime will plague the whole world in the near future. The envoy, meanwhile, reminded that attacks on Beirut had been carried out “using United States-supplied thousands-pound bunker busters.”
He also denounced the U.S. for preventing the council from taking “an effective decision” against the regime, thus providing Tel Aviv with “complete impunity.” “The Security Council must compel Israel to immediately cease its acts of aggression and crimes in Gaza and Lebanon, and comply with relevant UNSC Resolutions.”
