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The UN Safety Council will convene on Sunday for an emergency assembly over Iran’s drone and missile assault on Israel, the physique’s president has stated.
The assembly was requested by Israel, who wrote in a letter to the council’s president, Vanessa Frazier, that the assaults “pose a grave risk to worldwide peace and safety”.
The letter accuses Iran of violating its worldwide obligations and of being “the architect of instability for years” by means of its help for Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.
“The gravity and quantity of the assaults are unprecedented,” the letter provides, “and are a flagrant violation of Israel’s sovereignty, of worldwide regulation, and of Safety Council resolutions.”
It asks the Safety Council to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – the first department of the Iranian armed forces – as a terrorist organisation.
In a separate letter to Frazier, Iran defended itself, saying it acted in “self-defence as outlined in Article 51 of the Constitution of the United Nations, and in response to the Israel’s recurring navy aggression”.
The emergency assembly is scheduled for 16:00 EST (21:00 BST).
