Iran requests emergency meeting of UN Security Council after US strikes

Iran has formally called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council following US airstrikes on its nuclear facilities.

In a letter addressed to the UN, Iran’s ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani urged the international body to take immediate notice of what he described as a serious threat to global peace and security.

“I am writing upon instructions from my government to urgently draw the attention of Your Excellency and the members of the United Nations Security Council to a grave threat to regional and international peace and security arising from the unlawful use of force by the United States against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he wrote.

The letter further condemned the strikes as “deliberate, premeditated, and unprovoked,” and noted that Israel possesses nuclear weapons.

Referring to what it called the “savage and criminal actions” of the United States, Iran requested the Security Council to convene an emergency session without delay.

"Such blatant acts of aggression and violations committed by a non-NPT party, the Israeli regime, which possesses underclared, unsafeguarded nuclear capabilities, maintains a stockpile of nuclear weapons, and has a notorious record of attacking peaceful nuclear facilities across the region and further perpetrated by the United States, the only Member State ever to have used nuclear weapons in war, massacring millions of civilians in two single strikes during World War II, and which has now openly targeted Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities that have remained under full verification and continuous monitoring of the International Atomic Energy Agency," read the letter.