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Iranian UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani addressed the United Nations on the evening after the first strike by the United Nations, commenting first on the deaths of the children.
“The aggressors have targeted a school in the city of Minab, Hormozgan province, killing more than 100 children,” stated Iravani: “The number of innocent civilians continues to rise, this is not only an act of aggression, it is a war crime against humanity.”
Iravani said: “This morning, the United States regime jointly in coordination with the Israeli regime initiated an unprovoked and premeditated aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran for the second time in recent months, while deliberately attacking civilian populated areas in multiple large cities of Iran where millions of people reside.
“As a result of this brutal armed attack, hundreds of civilians have been killed and injured – the aggression and atrocious crime of the United States regime and the Israeli regime and the deliberate and persistent targeting of civilian infrastructure are ongoing.”
Iravani continued: “The reality is clear and undeniable – what is taking place today against my country by the United States and the terrorist regime of Israel is a blatant act of aggression, a full-fledged violation of international law – no justification, no accusation, no narrative of disinformation can legitimise or excuse this manifest crime and aggression.”
According to Iravani: “The United States and Israel’s war today is not merely against Iran, it is a war against the Charter of the United Nations, a war against international law, and a war against the international legal order upon which the United Nations and the Security Council have been built for over eight decades.
“Just as the Israeli regime succeeded in dragging the United States into the quagmire of war with Iran, the United States, in turn, is deliberately seeking to expand its scope of the conflict by exploiting spaces in the Persian Gulf region.”
Iravani concluded: “The hostile US government’s dream of swallowing Iran and forcing the Islamic Republic of Iran into submission will never be realised – this war, before being a contest of military equipment and advanced technologies, is a battle of wills, and in that battle the Islamic Republic of Iran will prevail.”
