Acting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri was on the phone yesterday making the international case against Israel for the July 31 assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Bagheri told UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that Iran will by no means renounce its right to take retaliatory action against the Israeli regime for its assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
“The terrorist act of the Zionist regime in martyring Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, in addition to violating the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has endangered regional and international peace and stability. Iran will not forgo its inherent right to self-defense and to take reciprocal action to punish the criminal Zionists,” Bagheri warned, Tasnim reported this morning. Guterres reportedly condemned the Israeli attacks on Beirut and Tehran and acknowledged that, under the international law, Iran has the right to legitimate self-defense in response to violations of its national security and territorial integrity.
In conclusion, Tasnim says, Bagheri emphasized that the international community must pressure the Zionist regime to stop its ongoing crimes in Gaza and save the oppressed people of the besieged enclave from the criminal gang ruling Israel.
Bagheri also issued a call for an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation at the foreign ministers’ level. According to another Tasnim report, he discussed this yesterday with his Saudi and Qatari counterparts.
