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Monday, June 16, 2025
From the Liveblog of
Monday, June 16, 2025
Iran tells UN strikes on Israel are self-defense
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Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran impacted and caused damage in Tel Aviv, June 16, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Iran’s strikes on Israel are self-defense and are “proportionate defensive operations directed exclusively at military objectives and associated infrastructure,” Iran’s UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani tells the United Nations Security Council.
He writes in a letter that any cooperation by third countries with Israel’s strikes on Iran “makes them complicit in the legal responsibility and consequences of this crisis.”
Under Article 51 of the founding United Nations Charter, the 15-member Security Council must immediately be informed of any action that states take in self-defense against armed attack.
Iran’s missiles have killed 24 civilians and wounded hundreds more with attacks on an array of Israeli towns and cities.
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