Iran’s Araghchi calls for ‘immediate, concrete, and effective measures’ from UN

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UN Security Council decrying the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in US and Israeli strikes.

The letter decried Khamenei’s killing as a “cowardly act of terror” and a “dangerous and unprecedented escalation that strikes at the most fundamental norms of statehood and civilized conduct among nations”.

“Such conduct does not merely violate established principles of international law; it recklessly opens a dangerous Pandora’s box, eroding the bedrock of sovereign equality and the stability of the international system,” he said.

Araghchi said Iran “solemnly calls upon the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Security Council to discharge their Charter-mandated responsibilities for the maintenance of international peace and security and take immediate, concrete, and effective measures to ensure the full accountability of the United States and the Israeli regime for the aforementioned atrocious terrorist act”.