In a letter issued on Wednesday, Saeed Iravani warned United Nations and its Security Council member states about Israel’s “neither isolated nor rhetorical” threat of targeting Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei.
He drew the organization’s “urgent attention, and that of the members of the Security Council, to the latest public threat issued by Israel Katz,” the Israeli minister for military affairs, against the Leader.
The Israeli regime's minister has publicly stated that Ayatollah Khamenei is “marked for death.”
“This threat is neither isolated nor rhetorical,” the Iranian mission’s letter stated.
“It forms part of a deliberate and systematic policy of State-sponsored terrorism targeting senior Iranian State officials, pursued in the context of the Israeli regime’s unlawful acts of aggression against Iran.”
The Iranian mission also underscored the fact that the Israeli regime’s behavior “constitutes a grave violation of the Charter of the United Nations, fundamental principles of international law, including the prohibition on the threat or use of force.”
Iravani condemned Israel in unequivocal terms, holding the occupying regime “fully responsible for all consequences arising from any act of aggression or other unlawful conduct committed pursuant to such threats.”
The Iranian official also placed a premium on the Islamic Republic’s “inherent right of self-defense, as enshrined in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations.”
Under the UN Charter, the letter included, Iran will take all necessary measures to defend its sovereignty, territorial integrity, national security, and people.
Iravani urged the UN Security Council to “compel the Israeli regime” to comply with its obligations under the UN Charter and to “immediately cease” unlawful acts of aggression.