Russia: UN meeting on Iran retaliation ‘display of hypocrisy’
Russia’s UN envoy denounces as hypocritical, a meeting of the world body’s Security Council on Iran’s recent retaliatory strikes against the Israeli regime’s April 1 deadly terrorist attack on the Islamic Republic’s diplomatic premises in Damascus.
Addressing the gathering on Sunday, Vasily Nebenzya called it "a display of hypocrisy and double standards, which is almost embarrassing to watch."
"You know very well that an attack on a diplomatic mission is a casus belli under international law,” he stated.
“If Western missions were attacked, you would not hesitate to retaliate and prove your case in this room. Because for you, everything that concerns Western missions and Western citizens is sacred and must be protected," the Russian official added.
The Israeli attack resulted in the martyrdom of Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), his deputy, General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, and five of their accompanying officers.
Retaliating against the attack, the IRGC targeted the occupied territories late on Saturday with a barrage of drones and missiles.
The retaliatory attack, dubbed Operation True Promise, has inflicted damage on Israeli military bases across the occupied territories, but the extent of which is yet to be specified.
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