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Thursday, April 11, 2024
Iran says it wouldn’t need to retaliate if UN had condemned strike on Damascus
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Billboard in Tehran displaying a portrait of Quds Force commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi, who was killed in Damascus airstrike, with a slogan in Hebrew saying, 'You will be punished,' on April 3, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
The “imperative for Iran” to retaliate for the attack on its embassy compound in Damascus might have been avoided had the UN Security Council condemned the strike, Tehran’s mission to the United Nations says.
“Had the UN Security Council condemned the Zionist regime’s reprehensible act of aggression on our diplomatic premises in Damascus and subsequently brought to justice its perpetrators, the imperative for Iran to punish this rogue regime might have been obviated,” the mission writes on X.
Israel has not publicly commented on the strike.
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