Iran as ‘victim of aggression’ seeks reparations from Arab states
Iran demanded compensation from five Arab nations for committing internationally wrongful acts by allowing their territories to be used by aggressors and in some cases directly participating in unlawful armed attacks against Iran.
In a letter addressed to Secretary General António Guterres and Security Council President Jamal Fares Alrowaiei, Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative Amir Saeid Iravani rejected recent compensation demands from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and Jordan and said that under the present circumstances, the named states cannot lawfully invoke Article 51 of the UN Charter (the right to self-defense) vis-à-vis Iran as they facilitated the US-Israel aggression.
Instead, Tehran asserts that it is “the victim of aggression” and is exercising its inherent right of self-defense, he added in the letter.
The letter further states that in some instances, unlawful armed attacks against civilian targets inside Iran have been carried out directly by those states.
The Iranian mission demanded that the five countries should immediately cease their internationally wrongful acts of allowing their territories to be used by aggressors and, in certain cases, engaging in direct unlawful armed attacks against Iran.
By those acts, he added, they have breached their international obligations towards Iran under international law, thereby engaging their international responsibility.
Iravani reiterated that they should make full reparations to Iran, including compensation for all material and moral damage sustained as a result of their internationally wrongful acts.
US-Israeli war inflicts $270b damage
The government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani has said the country’s preliminary assessment of the damage caused by the unprovoked US-Israeli aggression has reached $270 billion, stressing that the figure may change.
On Friday, the president of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said more than 125,000 civilian structures had been either destroyed or severely damaged because of the aggression.
Pir-Hossein Koulivand identified 100,000 of the structures as residential properties and 23,500 as commercial centers.