Iran has urged the United Nations Security Council to respond to Israeli attacks in Syria and the expansion of its occupation in the Golan Heights.
Tehran’s call to “halt the aggression” and hold Israel accountable comes after Israel said it struck chemical weapon capacity in Syria and had ordered the creation of a “security zone” inside Syrian territory – which the UN said breached a 1975 agreement.
Israel’s move in the Golan Heights, the plateau that Israel seized from Syria in 1967 before formally annexing it in 1981, was “a sign of the expansionist and aggressive approach of the occupying regime and its disrespect for all international legal norms and rules,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei in a statement.
Tensions between Iran and Israel have heightened fears of an all-out regional war after their decades-long shadow conflict emerged into the open following the October 7 attack on Israel by Iranian proxy Hamas last year. The two countries have traded a series of strikes this year as Israel wages its ongoing war in Gaza.
By: Irene Nasser, CNN