Iran urges UN Security Council to condemn US-Israeli assassination plots against senior officials

Iran has formally alerted the United Nations to media reports revealing treacherous US and Israeli plans to assassinate high-ranking Iranian officials, including Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, describing the threats as a clear example of state terrorism and a grave violation of international law.

In an official letter on Thursday addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the President of the Security Council, Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN, Amir Saeed Iravani, expressed deep concern over the reported assassination plots.

“I draw the immediate attention of Your Excellency and the members of the Security Council to the reports published in the media,” Iravani stated.

“These reports indicate that the United States and the Israeli regime have identified and designated high-ranking officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Mr. Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, as assassination targets. The reports describe any suspension of such plans as merely temporary.”

The ambassador emphasized that the reports point to an operational framework aimed at assassinating Iran’s highest political officials. This criminal policy has been systematically implemented since the start of the unprovoked US-Israeli aggression against Iran on February 28, which began with the assassination of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution and several other senior officials.

“Such a policy clearly indicates a serious violation of the peremptory rules of international law. The conditional nature of the alleged ‘suspension’ also confirms that the threat remains real, deliberate, and ongoing,” Iravani warned.

He added that these threats are the products of “criminal mindsets” that have openly called the “rules of engagement” “foolish.”

The same forces, working with the terrorists ruling Tel Aviv, have deliberately bombed and killed hundreds of students, targeted hospitals, destroyed cultural heritage sites, and committed other heinous crimes in an open campaign of state terrorism.

“The promotion of the term ‘kill lists’ should be seen as another manifestation of the same terrorist acts that initiated a criminal war against Iran and have so far resulted in the deaths of more than three thousand civilians,” the letter stressed.

Iravani underlined that a premeditated policy of assassinating high-ranking officials of a sovereign UN member state constitutes a flagrant violation of the UN Charter, as well as gross breaches of international human rights law — including the right to life — and international humanitarian law.

He further recalled that officials at the level of Foreign Minister enjoy complete personal immunity under customary international law, a principle repeatedly affirmed by the International Court of Justice.
Any attack on their lives would undermine the foundations of peaceful international relations. Iran firmly condemns any attempt to normalize the assassination of high-ranking government officials, describing it as a destructive and biased policy that represents state terrorism, sets a dangerous precedent, and poses a serious threat to international peace and security.

Iran to UN: KSA, Qatar, Kuwait and UAE must halt use of their territory for US-Israeli aggression against Iran

In separate letters, Iravani issued strong protests to the United Nations against Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates for allowing their territory and airspace to be used by the United States and the Israeli regime to carry out attacks on Iranian soil.

Iran’s ambassador firmly renewed Tehran’s objection to these illegal and hostile actions by the four Persian Gulf states.

The Iranian ambassador stressed that states bear clear international responsibility when they make their territory available for acts of aggression and armed attacks against a third sovereign country.

“Considering the international responsibility of states arising from making their territory available for committing acts of aggression and carrying out armed attacks against the territory of a third state, the Islamic Republic of Iran has expressed its strong and firm protest against the above-mentioned illegal actions,” Iravani stated in the letters.

He called on the kingdoms of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates to immediately observe the principles of good neighborliness and prevent any further use of their territory against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The senior Iranian diplomat also underlined that while the Islamic Republic continues to uphold the principle of good neighborliness and fully respects the sovereignty of these states, it reserves its legitimate right to take all necessary and appropriate measures — including the exercise of its inherent right of self-defense — in order to safeguard its sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence.