NEW YORK (Dispatches) – Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani strongly condemned Israel’s recent military attacks on Syria during a Security Council session on Thursday, calling the actions a “dangerous escalation” and a violation of international law.
“These deliberate acts of aggression, including those on the capital, Damascus, targeted infrastructures and public and government facilities,” Iravani said. He criticized Israel’s ongoing occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights, calling it an “illegal annexation and settlement expansion” that defies the UN Charter and Security Council resolutions.
Iran’s envoy described Israel as “the gravest and serious threat to regional peace and security,” citing its “continued acts of aggression” supported politically and militarily by the United States and some Western countries. “These states must bear their responsibility for enabling Israel’s illegal actions and atrocious crimes,” he said.
Iravani linked Israel’s attacks on Syria to the Security Council’s “silence and the international community’s failure to act,” warning that Israel “faces no consequences for its repeated systematic violations of international law and continues to act with complete impunity.”
He condemned Israel’s recent 12-day military aggression against Iran, which included attacks on nuclear facilities and civilian infrastructure. “These illegal attacks resulted in the martyrdom of over 1,100 civilians, among them 41 children and 126 women,” Iravani said. “Seven hospitals, eleven ambulances, and more than 3,500 homes were destroyed.”
“The root causes of instability are clear: Israel’s illegal occupation, repeated aggression, systematic and widespread violations of international law and the UN Charter, and the unconditional support it receives from a permanent member of this Council,” he added. “It is time for the Security Council to act.”
Iravani also condemned the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, describing Israel’s tactics as “mass atrocities… using starvation as a method of war and killing tens of thousands of civilians, including women and children.”
He reaffirmed Iran’s support for Syria’s “sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity,” urging Syria’s interim government to respect minority rights through peaceful dialogue. 
“The Israeli regime has absolutely no legal or moral justification to violate Syria’s sovereignty or interfere in its internal affairs,” he said, urging the Council to “unequivocally condemn” Israel’s actions.