Iran urges UNSC emergency meeting after Israeli attacks on Lebanon
Iran on Saturday called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in protest at the Israeli regime’s ongoing deadly aggression across the region.
In the letter, Iran’s UN envoy Amir Saeid Iravani called on the council to “take immediate and decisive action to stop Israel’s ongoing aggression and prevent... from dragging the region into a full-scale war.”
On Friday, the Israeli regime launched an attack on the suburbs of Lebanon’s capital Beirut, which led to the death of the leader of the Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, alongside many others, including an Iranian military advisor.
The assassination came amid the Israeli regime’s October-present escalation against Lebanon and genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which have respectively claimed the lives of hundreds of Lebanese and north of 41,500 Palestinians. Women and children comprise the majority of the victims.
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 envoy, meanwhile, reminded that attacks on Beirut had been carried out “using US-supplied thousands-pound bunker busters.”
He also denounced the US 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.”
Iravani reminded that the regime’s regional aggression saw it targeting the Iranian Consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus in April, leading to the martyrdom of a commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), his deputy, and five of their accompanying officers.
He asserted that the Islamic Republic “will not tolerate any repeat of such aggression.”