{"id":25040,"date":"2024-10-28T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T09:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=25040"},"modified":"2024-10-28T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T09:32:03","slug":"iran-paints-israel-as-grave-threat-to-international-peace-at-the-unsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/10\/iran-paints-israel-as-grave-threat-to-international-peace-at-the-unsc\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran paints Israel as &#8216;grave threat to international peace&#8217; at the UNSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; <span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The United Nations Security Council meets on Monday to discuss Israel&#8217;s attack on Iran, council president Switzerland said. The Swiss UN mission said the meeting had been requested by Iran with the support of Algeria, China and Russia.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"mainstorycontent-parent\">\n<div class=\"storypage-main-section2\">\n<div class=\"storypage-rightside\">\n<p>\u201cIsraeli regime&#8217;s actions constitute a grave threat to international peace and security and further destabilise an already fragile region,&#8221; Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in a letter to the 15-member council on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Islamic Republic of Iran, in alignment with the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and under international law, reserves its inherent right to legal and legitimate response to these criminal attacks at the appropriate time,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of Israeli jets completed three waves of strikes before dawn on Saturday against\u00a0missile factories and other sites near Tehran\u00a0and in western Iran, Israel&#8217;s military said.<\/p>\n<p>It was retaliation for Iran&#8217;s October 1 attack on Israel with about 200 ballistic missiles, and Israel warned its heavily armed arch-foe not to hit back after the latest strike, reported Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s UN\u00a0Ambassador Danny Danon rejected Iran&#8217;s complaint at the United Nations, saying in a statement on Sunday that Iran was &#8220;trying to act against us in the diplomatic arena with the ridiculous claim that Israel has violated international law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we have stated time and time again, we have the right and duty to defend ourselves and will use all the means at our disposal to protect the citizens of Israel,&#8221; Danon said.<\/p>\n<p>UN\u00a0Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed \u201cto all parties to cease all military actions,\u00a0including in Gaza\u00a0and Lebanon, exert maximum efforts to prevent an all-out regional war and return to the path of diplomacy,\u201d his spokesperson said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss UN mission said the meeting had been requested by Iran with the support of Algeria, China and Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,17,982,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-security_","category-international","category-headline"],"views":51,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25046,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25040\/revisions\/25046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}