The United Nations (UN) Security Council is due to meet on Monday (28) to discuss Israel’s attack on Iran, diplomats said on Sunday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi called on the Security Council to meet on the attack and diplomats said the council would likely discuss the situation on Monday.
“The actions of the Israeli regime constitute a serious threat to international peace and security and further destabilize an already fragile region,” Araqchi said in a letter to the 15-member council on Saturday.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran, in alignment with the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and under international law, reserves the inherent right to legal and legitimate response to these criminal attacks at the appropriate time,” he wrote.
Dozens of Israeli jets completed three waves of pre-dawn strikes Saturday against missile factories and other sites near Tehran and western Iran, Israel’s military said.
It was in retaliation for Iran’s attack on Israel on October 1 with around 200 ballistic missiles, and Israel warned its heavily armed arch-enemy not to fight back after the latest attack.
Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon dismissed Iran’s complaint to the United Nations, saying in a statement Sunday that Iran is “trying to act against us in the diplomatic arena with the ridiculous claim that Israel has violated international law.”
“As we have said many times, we have the right and duty to defend ourselves and we will use all means at our disposal to protect the citizens of Israel,” Danon said.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on “all parties to cease all military actions, including in Gaza and Lebanon, make maximum efforts to avoid an all-out regional war and return to the path of diplomacy ,” his spokesperson said in a statement on Saturday.
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