The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran strongly condemns the savage U.S. military aggression against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities, an act carried out in blatant and unprecedented violation of the most fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter and international law. 

The Ministry holds the warmongering and lawbreaking U.S. government fully responsible for the grave consequences of this major crime.

The U.S. military aggression against the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of a UN member state, perpetrated in collusion with the genocidal Zionist regime, once again reveals the depths of U.S. malice and hostility toward the peace-loving, independent people of Iran.

The Islamic Republic of Iran asserts its right to stand firmly against the U.S. military aggression and crimes and to protect Iran’s national security and interests by all means necessary.

The U.S. assault on Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities, carried out on the tenth day of Israel’s ongoing military aggression, has publicly exposed America’s criminal collaboration with the Zionist regime in planning and executing military attacks on Iran.

This assault constitutes not only a severe and unprecedented breach of the UN Charter, especially Article 2, Paragraph 4 on the prohibition of force and respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of states, but also a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231, and a devastating blow to the nuclear non-proliferation regime, committed by a permanent member of the Security Council.

Iran calls on the United Nations, the Security Council, the UN Secretary-General, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and all relevant international bodies to take urgent and responsible action in response to this criminal lawbreaking. 

Silence in the face of such blatant aggression would expose the world to unprecedented, far-reaching dangers.

As a founding member of the United Nations, the Islamic Republic of Iran expects the organization and all its responsible members to fulfill their duties in light of this flagrant American breach of international law.

We urge the UN Security Council to convene an emergency session to decisively condemn the U.S. aggression against Iran and to hold the United States accountable for its gross violations of international norms and rules.

The IAEA and its Director General, who, through their clear bias toward belligerent parties, helped create the pretext for this disaster, must now fully assume their responsibilities. 

We call upon the IAEA Board of Governors to hold an emergency meeting and address the U.S. attack on Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities, which have been under full IAEA safeguards and inspection.

The world must not forget that the United States, in the midst of a diplomatic process, betrayed diplomacy by supporting the aggressive and unlawful actions of the genocidal Israeli regime, and has now launched a dangerous war against Iran in continuation of these violations.

It is now clear to all that a country claiming to be a permanent member of the Security Council adheres to no rule or ethical standard and is willing to commit any violation or crime to advance the aims of a genocidal, occupying regime.

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