Envoy Urges UN Action Over Murder of Advisors

Date: 07 April 2023 - 21:52

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TEHRAN – Iran’s permanent ambassador to the UN says the Security Council must condemn the occupying regime of Israel’s ongoing violations of fundamental principles of international law and the UN Charter, and take a decisive action to put an end to the regime’s unlawful and criminal acts.

Amir Saeid Iravani made the remark in a letter to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the head of the Security Council, after two Iranian military advisers stationed in Syria were martyred in an Israeli airstrike near the country’s capital Damascus last week.

Following the attack, Iran said it reserves the right to respond to state terrorism of the fake Israeli regime in due time and place.

“Given the serious repercussions of such unlawful and criminal acts for regional and international peace and security, as well as the grave challenges to the rule of law, the United Nations Security Council must take decisive action to end these violations and hold the Israeli regime accountable for all its internationally wrongful acts,” Iravani said.

“The Security Council must not be complicit in double standards and must carry out its mandate by explicitly condemning the Israeli regime’s ongoing violations of fundamental principles of international law and the United Nations Charter,” he added.

He said Iran will not hesitate to take the necessary measures, in accordance with international law and the UN Charter, to “respond decisively to any threat or attack posed by the Israeli regime and to defend its security and national interests, as well as to protect its people.”

The Iranian envoy noted that the Zionist regime’s terrorist attacks on Damascus and its suburbs on March 31 led to the martyrdom of the two Iranian advisers and the tragic loss of innocent civilian lives as well as severe damage to the infrastructure of the Arab country.

He maintained that the heinous crime once again illustrated the Zionist regime’s ongoing aggression and flagrant violation of international law on Syrian territory.

He slammed the inaction of the international community, particularly the UN Security Council, in dealing with Israel’s constant acts of aggression against Syria, which has enabled the Tel Aviv regime to act with impunity.

“Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected, and actions that undermine them must not be tolerated,” Iravani added.

Meanwhile, a high-ranking commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned the occupying regime of Israel of a “strong and decisive” response to its murder of two Iranian military advisors in Syria.

“Zionists know they have received and will receive a harsher blow compared to what they have dealt to us,” Brigadier General Muhammad Reza Naqdi, IRGC’s deputy commander for coordination, said at the burial ceremony of Milad Heidari in Qorveh, western Kordestan province.

“They should be ready for a strong and decisive response,” he said.

Heidari and Meqdad Mehqani were martyred in aerial raids conducted by the Zionist regime on the suburbs of the Syrian capital.

Heidari, a 32-year-old father of two, was from a village near Qorveh.

“The blood of our martyrs is far more valuable than killing a Zionist. Although this will happen, the main revenge is the liberation of Al-Quds,” the IRGC commander said. “We are seeing the collapse and elimination of Israel, and this is certain.”

“The resistance movement will not stop resistance until the elimination of Israel and cleaning up the region from their evil presence,” he added.

The burial ceremony in the martyred officer’s hometown was attended by hundreds of people, officials, and military commanders.

Footage from the ceremony showed attendants chanting vociferous slogans against the Israeli regime and the U.S.

“The U.S. and the Zionists should know that the blood of martyrs Heidari and Mehqani will water the roots of resistance and make the … Revolution stronger,” Maryam Soleimani, Heidari’s wife, told the event.

Kordestan governor Ismail Zarei-Koosha hailed the massive attendance at the burial ceremony as a manifestation of unity between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the province.

“All of us, Shia and Sunni, will sacrifice our lives for the Revolution,” he said.

Mehqani, 31, was laid to rest in his hometown in northern Golestsan province on Thursday.

On Tuesday, a mass funeral ceremony for the two young martyrs was held in Tehran with the attendance of tens of thousands of people.