Iran calls for UNSC emergency meeting after Hezbollah leader assassination

Amir Saeid Iravani, the Islamic Republic’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations, made the request in a letter addressed to the council on Saturday. A day earlier, the regime embarked on intense airstrikes against Lebanon’s capital Beirut, causing the martyrdom of the leader of the Lebanese resistance movement alongside many others.

The assassination came amid the Israeli regime’s October-present escalation against Lebanon and genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which have respectively claimed the lives of hundreds of Lebanese and at least 41,586 Palestinians. Women and children comprise the majority of the victims.

Iravani denounced the unbridled aggression as “war crime and crime against humanity.”

He said the UNSC had to convene the meeting “to address Israel's terrorist aggression and the continuous atrocities perpetrated by the warmongering Israeli regime in Lebanon and across the region.”

“These brazen acts of aggression…pose a grave threat to regional and international peace and security, pushing the entire region into an all-out catastrophe,” he cautioned.

The envoy, meanwhile, reminded that attacks on Beirut had been carried out “using United States-supplied thousands-pound bunker busters.”

He also denounced the US for preventing the council from taking “an effective decision” against the regime, thus providing Tel Aviv with “complete impunity.”

“The Security Council must compel Israel to immediately cease its acts of aggression and crimes in Gaza and Lebanon, and comply with relevant UNSC Resolutions.”

Iravani reminded that the regime’s regional aggression saw it targeting the Iranian Consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus in April, causing the martyrdom of a commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), his deputy, and five of their accompanying officers.