AFP, Reuters and Sputnik
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, October 27, 2024, p. 16
New York., Iran assured yesterday that it has the duty to defend after the Israeli bombings launched at dawn on Saturday against military objectives in its territory, and requested that the United Nations (UN) hold an emergency meeting of the Security Council to examine this serious violationas well as carry bring this criminal regime (of Israel) to justicesaid Amir Saeid Iravani, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations.
Tehran also accused the White House at the UN of complicity in this crimeby ensuring that the Israeli attack started from Iraqi airspace, specifically 70 kilometers from the border with Iran, and recalled that that airspace is under occupation, command and control of the United States.
Senior US officials explained to the press that Washington was not involved directly in the attack, and added that the Joe Biden government carried out intense diplomatic efforts to ensure that Israel’s response was proportional and avoided nuclear or oil targetswhich could have aggravated the conflict, reported the Deutsche Welle network.
Despite Tel Aviv’s warning to Tehran to make it pay a high price if it responds to the airstrike, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchà declared: We have shown that our determination to defend ourselves has no limits.
Israel called precision attacks the offensive carried out against Iranian missile manufacturing and launching facilities, in response to the Islamic Republic’s attack on Tel Aviv on October 1. Tehran reported that the toll of the onslaught by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is four dead soldiers and limited damage only to some radar systems in military bases in the provinces of Tehran, Khuzestan (southwest) and Ilam (west).
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that the bombings they did not reach Iranian nuclear facilities.
However, commercial satellite images showed that yesterday’s Israeli airstrikes hit buildings that Iran used to mix solid fuel used in ballistic missiles, according to separate assessments by two US researchers.
David Albrigth, a former United Nations weapons inspector who heads the research group at the Institute for Science and International Security, as well as researcher Decker Eveleth, an associate at CNA, a think tank based in Washington, DC, held separately that Israel attacked Parchin, a huge military complex near Tehran, and Kohir, a missile production center near the Iranian capital, which means it has significantly hampered Iran’s ability to mass produce missilesAl Jazeera reported.
Israel’s barrage of bombs occurred against a backdrop of high tension in the region. Israel is waging war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, both backed by Iran, which called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council and warned that in accordance with the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and international law, reserves the inalienable right to a legitimate response to these criminal attacks in a timely manner.in a letter sent to the secretary general of the organization, Antonio Guterres, through the Iranian ambassador to the organization.
Yesterday, before the Israeli offensive in Iran called Days of Repentance, Tel Aviv claimed that it carried out the bombings in response to months of continuous attacks: The Iranian regime and its allies in the region have not stopped attacking Israel since October 7, 2023said the Tel Aviv army, in reference to the war eruption of Hamas on Israeli soil, which unleashed the war in Gaza.
With the bombings in the early hours of Saturday, Israeli forces claimed to have completed response to Iran attacks.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog praised the United States and cooperation public and secret between both countries after the air attacks by their forces on Tehran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured that the targets he attacked in Iran were chosen based on their national interestsnot in what the United States dictated.
