By Michelle Nichols
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United Nations Safety Council is anticipated to satisfy on Monday to debate Israel’s assault on Iran, diplomats mentioned on Sunday.
Iran’s International Minister Abbas Araqchi referred to as on the Safety Council to satisfy over the assault and diplomats mentioned the council was more likely to talk about the state of affairs on Monday.
“Israeli regime’s actions represent a grave menace to worldwide peace and safety and additional destabilize an already fragile area,” 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 its inherent right to legal and legitimate response to these criminal attacks at the appropriate time,” he wrote.
Scores of Israeli jets completed 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 retaliation for Iran’s Oct. 1 attack on Israel with about 200 ballistic missiles, and Israel warned its heavily armed arch-foe not to hit back after the latest strike.
Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon rejected Iran’s complaint at the United Nations, saying in a statement on Sunday that Iran was “attempting to behave towards us within the diplomatic area with the ridiculous declare that Israel has violated worldwide legislation.”
“As we have stated time and time again, we have the right and duty to defend ourselves and will use all the means at our disposal to protect the citizens of Israel,” Danon mentioned.
U.N. Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres appealed “to all parties to cease all military actions, including in Gaza and Lebanon, exert maximum efforts to prevent an all-out regional war and return to the path of diplomacy,” his spokesperson mentioned in an announcement on Saturday.
