ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Iran on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to condemn the US attack on the country’s nuclear facilities, a week into Tehran’s air war with Israel.
In a letter addressed to the Security Council, Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani said the body must “take all necessary measures” to hold the US accountable under the UN charter and internal law.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran condemns and denounces in the strongest possible terms these unprovoked and premeditated acts of aggression, which have followed the large-scale military attack conducted by the Israeli regime on 13 June against Iran's peaceful nuclear sites and facilities," the letter read, describing the US-Israel coordinated strikes as “henious attacks” on the Islamic republic.
“In light of the grave and far-reaching consequences of the United States’ savage and criminal actions for international peace and security, the Islamic Republic of Iran urgently requests the Security Council to convene an emergency meeting without delay to address this blatant and unlawful act of aggression, to condemn it in the strongest possible terms, and to take all necessary measures under its Charter-mandated responsibilities that the perpetrator of such heinous crimes is held fullu accountable and does not go unpunished,” the letter continued.
Trump on Saturday announced that they have joined Israel in striking Iran, targeting the country's main uranium enrichment facilities in Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow.
In an Address to the Nation following the strikes, the American president said they had carried out “massive precision strikes” on the three key nuclear facilities. “Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror.”
“Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” Trump claimed.
Iran and Israel have traded fire over the past week, sparked by an extensive Israeli bombardment targeting Iranian nuclear and military facilities across the country. The US initially denied involvement in Israel’s attacks on Iran.
Iranian foreign ministry said Sunday that US attacks showed that Washington "will stop at no illegality or crime" to support Israel.
Following the US strikes, Iran's Atomic Energy Organization called the attacks “a brutal act that contradicts international laws, especially the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).”
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