Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations has reiterated the Islamic Republic’s vehement denunciation of Israel’s US-backed aggression on the country, stressing that the 12-day war constituted a flagrant breach of international law and the UN Charter.
Amir Saeid Iravani made the statement on Thursday in a letter addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UN Security Council President Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, while attaching a derailed report of the Iranian Foreign Ministry about the occupying regime’s aggression on Iranian soil last month.
“In the early hours of June 13, 2025 while Iranian families were at rest, the Israeli regime— backed by extensive military, intelligence, and political support from the United States and certain Western countries—launched coordinated air, missile, and drone attacks targeting residential areas, civilian infrastructure, and peaceful nuclear facilities. These indiscriminate and illegal attacks martyred 1,100 innocent civilians, including 132 women and 45 children, and injured over 5,700 others,” Iravani said.
“These heinous crimes constitute grave violations of the UN Charter, international law, international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions, and international human rights instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the ICCPR. The subsequent US military aggression on 22 June 2025 further compounded these violations,” he added.
The Iranian diplomat underlined that the deliberate targeting of residential areas, hospitals, medical centers, ambulances, civilians, energy infrastructure, scientists, and peaceful nuclear facilities under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards is a blatant violation of international law and constitutes as war crime, crime of aggression, and crime against humanity.
Iravani described his report as a glimpse into the suffering inflicted on Iranian civilians, especially women and children, highlighting the urgency of upholding international law and ending impunity for such atrocities.
Addressing an emergency session of the UN Security Council following the Israeli military aggression, Iravani demanded urgent and concrete measures by the world body to hold the regime accountable and prevent further destabilization of international peace and security.
The diplomat also recently denounced the “double standards” of Western powers, particularly the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, for failing to halt Israeli aggression, not only in Iran but also in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.
The Israeli regime launched a wave of strikes on Iran’s military and civilian infrastructure on June 13 that claimed hundreds of lives, including women and children, as well as a dozen top military brass.
In response, the Iranian armed forces launched a powerful retaliatory campaign, Operation True Promise III, against the Israeli regime by targeting key military, intelligence, industrial, energy, and R&D facilities across the occupied territories.
The United States, which had been in talks with Tehran about its peaceful nuclear program since April, joined the war on June 22 by targeting several key nuclear sites. Iran struck a major US military base in Qatar in retaliation.
The Israeli regime was forced on June 24 to declare a unilateral halt to its aggression, which was announced on its behalf by US President Donald Trump.