Iran reserves right to self-defense against Israeli terrorism: UN mission

Following the martyrdom of two Iranian advisors at the hands of the Israeli regime in Syria, Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations says the Islamic Republic considers itself rightful to defend itself and its interests against the regime’s acts of terrorism.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran reserves its inherent right to self-defense, under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, to respond to such criminal act whenever it deems appropriate,” the mission wrote in letters to the UN secretary general and the world body’s Security Council on Thursday.

Iran “recognizes that the Israeli regime is fully responsible for all the consequences of these criminal acts, and seriously warns the regime about taking further adventuristic and malevolent measures,” the letter read.

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has named the two martyrs as Colonel Ehsan Karbalayi-Poor and Colonel Morteza Saeed-Nezhad, saying they were martyred in a missile attack by the Israeli regime on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday.

“Undoubtedly, the Zionist regime will pay the price of this atrocity,” the IRGC's Public Relations Office said in a statement on Tuesday.

Later, the spokesman of the IRGC said the Israeli regime would be dealt with decisively for martyring the advisors. “The Zionist enemy knows that it will not benefit from such crimes and will receive decisive responses,” Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif said on Wednesday.

Iran maintains an advisory mission in Syria at the request of the Arab country with the aim of helping it get rid of the foreign-backed militants who have been fighting the Syrian government since 2011. Back in 2017, Iran’s advisory assistance helped Syria defeat the Daesh terrorist group.

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