Key points:
- Attacks targeted cities, nuclear sites, officials, and civilians
- Natanz nuclear facility strike risked a radiological disaster
- Iran calls Israel’s actions grave violations of international law
- Iran accuses Israel of breaching UN Charter and Geneva Conventions
- Iran reaffirms right to self-defence under UN Charter
- Tehran vows decisive, proportionate response to Israeli aggression.
ISLAMABAD: Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to take immediate and decisive action following a “brazen and unlawful act of aggression by Israel, targeting Iranian cities, nuclear facilities, and senior officials.”
In a strongly worded letter addressed to United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres and Security Council President Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Araghchi warned that the attacks mark a dangerous escalation in regional tensions and represent clear violations of international law.
“I am writing to you with utmost urgency and deep alarm regarding a brazen and unlawful act of aggression perpetrated by the Israeli regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the letter reads.
The minister said Israel launched “a coordinated series of military assaults targeting several Iranian cities, and its peaceful nuclear facilities, senior military officials, scientists and civilians.”
Among the targets was the Natanz nuclear facility, a key site under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) supervision. Araghchi warned that the strike risked a “radiological disaster” and was a “grave violation of international law.”
Risk of disaster
This reckless attack has not only endangered Iranian civilian lives, but also posed an alarming threat to regional and international peace and security by risking a radiological disaster, he wrote.
“Any deliberate military targeting of nuclear facilities under international safeguards constitutes a grave violation of international law.”
In addition to the military strikes, Araghchi said that a number of targeted assassinations of senior Iranian military officials and scientists in Tehran, are deliberate and premeditated acts of state terrorism.
“The responsibility for these heinous crimes has been publicly and arrogantly claimed by the regime’s Prime Minister himself,” Araghchi wrote.
Violation of sovereignty
Israel is systematically violating Iran’s sovereignty and breaching international law, including the Geneva Conventions and Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, which prohibits the use of force against the territorial integrity of any state, he argued.
These outrageous actions represent not only a grave violation of Iran’s sovereignty and territorial integrity as a sovereign UN Member State, but also constitute acts of aggression and war crimes under international law – Iran’s Foreign Minister
Calling Israel the most terrorist regime in the world, Araghchi claimed the latest actions mark yet another episode in Israel’s pattern of unlawful and destabilising conduct in the region.
“This is not merely a military attack against one nation — it is a direct assault on the principles that underpin the international legal order,” he warned. “Failure to respond will only embolden the aggressor, reward impunity, and invite further chaos in an already fragile region.”
Iran vows response
The Iranian minister reaffirmed his country’s right to self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter and pledged that Iran would respond decisively and proportionately.
The Islamic Republic of Iran will act with full resolve to protect its sovereignty, its people, and its national security. This right is non-negotiable – Iran’s Foreign Minister
Israel will come to deeply regret this reckless aggression and the grave strategic miscalculation it has made, he added.
Urgent UNSC meeting sought
Araghchi called for the immediate and urgent convening of a Security Council emergency meeting and urged the Council to take urgent and concrete measures to hold the Israeli regime fully accountable for its crimes.
“I request that this letter be circulated as a document of the Security Council and brought to the attention of all Member States,” the minister concluded.
