Ambassador's Statement at Stakeout: Israeli Regime's Acts of Terrorism
Iran's Ambassador has delivered a statement before journalists at the Stakeout following a UN Security Council session to discuss the latest acts of terrorism perpetrated by the Zionist regime of Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The full text of the statement is as follows:
Statement by
The Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran
At the UNSC Stakeout following the Security Council Meeting
New York- 13 June -2025
In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful
Good afternoon. I wish to make a short statement. I will not be taking questions.
We have just concluded an emergency meeting of the Security Council, convened under the agenda item: Threats to international peace and security.
The Council addressed Israel’s barbaric and criminal attacks against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
During the meeting, I made the following key points clear:
We unequivocally and forcefully condemn Israel’s unlawful and terrorist military aggression against Iran.
Israel, the most lawless and violent regime in the world, committed these barbaric attacks with the full intelligence, operational, and political backing of the United States government.
This was not self-defense. It was a premeditated, unjustifiable act of aggression.
The targets included peaceful nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards, military installations, civilian infrastructure, and residential areas.
Iran has also been the victim of systematic assassinations of senior officials, scientists, and civilians, a campaign of targeted murder that violates the most basic principles of humanity.
So far, seventy-eight Iranians have been killed, and more than 320 injured — the vast majority of them civilians, including women and children.
Let me be clear: Israel attacked safeguarded nuclear sites. This was a reckless, criminal act that could have triggered a radiological catastrophe far beyond Iran’s borders.
Such an attack is not only a violation of the UN Charter, the Statute of the IAEA, and the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but it is a direct threat to regional and global peace.
This was not simply an attack on Iran.
It was an attack on the international legal order, an attack on the United Nations, an attack on every nation that believes in the rule of law over the rule of force.
Israel has openly claimed responsibility. And it has done so with the active support of a permanent member of this Council, the United States.
This aggression constitutes a declaration of war.
Let me be clear: Iran will exercise its inherent right to self-defense under Article 51 of the Charter.
Our response will be lawful, proportionate, and determined. And it will come at a time of our choosing.
The Security Council must act now and stop the aggressor from further aggression. It must condemn this act of aggression; it must uphold its Charter obligations; it must defend the rule of law.
Let me conclude with this:
Israel attacked Iran.
Israel violated international law.
Israel must be held accountable.
Silence is not impartiality.
Silence is complicity.