Trump has, in recent days, threatened to launch renewed strikes against the country if indirect diplomatic discussions do not reach an agreement.
The unprovoked US-Israeli war on Iran began on February 28 with air raids that assassinated senior Iranian officials and commanders and targeted civilian infrastructure, residential areas, educational institutes, and historical and cultural sites.
In response, the Iranian Armed Forces unleashed 100 waves of successful strikes against sensitive and strategic American and Israeli targets throughout the region.
Speaking Wednesday at a UN Security Council meeting on the “Protection of Civilians,” Iravani blamed the UN Security Council for failing to fulfill its responsibilities because of obstruction by “a permanent member that is itself an aggressor.”
He said the council “must not remain silent or indifferent” toward Trump’s repeated threats against Iran, including “explicit threat to bomb Iran ‘back to the Stone Age,’” destroy the country’s energy, economic and industrial infrastructure, target Iranian nuclear scientists and senior officials, and “even rhetoric implying the destruction of an Iran’s civilization.”
“The normalization of such threats of force, acts of aggression, and inflammatory rhetoric by a permanent member of the Security Council sets a dangerous precedent,” he said.
He also said safeguarding civilians was “not merely a humanitarian concern” but “a binding legal obligation” under international humanitarian law, the Geneva Conventions, and the UN Charter.
He said civilians were increasingly being subjected to deliberate military attacks, collective punishment, and the systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure, adding that “this tragic reality is evident from Gaza to Lebanon, and most recently in the aggression against Iran.”
The Iranian envoy said the recent US-Israeli war against Iran once again exposed the “harsh reality” of violations of international humanitarian law.
“During forty days of this unwarranted and savage war, the aggressors have committed grave and systematic violations of international humanitarian law by deliberately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure,” Iravani said.
He said that in “one particularly horrific attack,” a girls’ school in Minab was deliberately targeted and completely destroyed, resulting in the murder of more than 168 innocent students.
“These are not collateral damages; they are war crimes,” he asserted.
Iravani also said that Iran’s actions were legitimate and carried out within the framework of the inherent right of self-defense, rejecting any attempt to portray Tehran’s actions as unlawful as “entirely unfounded, politically motivated, and devoid of any legal basis.”
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