TEHRAN -- Iran says statements by an American senator encouraging the occupying regime of Israel to assassinate more Iranian scientists amount to incitement to terrorism, which is a flagrant violation of international law.
During a visit to Occupied Palestine in mid-February, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham outrageously said Jews could not live with a nuclear Iran and that he had “no doubt that Israel will do what she has to” against Iran’s nuclear program.
“A lot of Iranian scientists have had a lot of accidents, and we would expect more accidents to come,” he said, referring to the assassinations of a number of Iranian scientists in terrorist attacks widely attributed to the Zionist regime.
In a letter submitted to the UN Security Council on Tuesday, Iran’s permanent mission to the UN said the remarks are “disgusting” and “hateful” and act as a “green light” to the Zionist regime to continue its terrorist attacks against Iranian scientists.
The comments constitute a flagrant violation of the United States’ international obligations, especially those under UN resolutions that prohibit states from inciting terrorist attacks and urge them to refrain from supporting terrorist activities, the letter read.
It pointed to the long history of Israeli acts of sabotage against Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities, urging the international community, the UN Security Council in particular, to strongly condemn the provocative acts and the encouragement of such terrorist activities.
The Islamic Republic of Iran reserves the right to take all necessary measures in accordance with international law, the Iranian mission added.
Graham made the remarks in the midst of talks in Vienna to revive the U.S.-abandoned Iran deal, or the JCPOA, which hawkish U.S. lawmakers, including Graham, and the regime in Tel Aviv bitterly oppose.