Iran has called on the UN Security Council to condemn an unprovoked and deadly US attack on a residential home hosting a wedding ceremony in southern Islamic Republic that led to the martyrdom of five civilians, including a four-year-old child, and injured more than 70 others.
Gholamhossein Darzi, the Islamic Republic’s ambassador and chargé d’affaires to the United Nations, made the appeal in a letter addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the president of the Security Council on Wednesday following a new wave of such American strikes targeting southern Iranian cities, which together claimed the lives of at least 18 people and wounded 108 others.
Describing the circumstances surrounding the attack targeting the wedding reception, the envoy noted that a residential home in Kouhestak, Sirik County, Hormozgan Province, was struck while the celebration was taking place there.
“The Islamic Republic strongly condemns this horrific and appalling crime,” he wrote, adding that “the deliberate targeting and killing of civilians, including children, constitutes a grave violation of the fundamental rules of international humanitarian law and amounts to a war crime.”
Darzi said the Kouhestak incident was part of a broader pattern of US and Israeli attacks against civilian sites across Iran.
The letter noted that since February 28, US attacks had repeatedly targeted civilians and critical infrastructure, including schools, hospitals, airports, residential areas, bridges, roads, and railway facilities.
It also cited the February 28 attack on a primary school in the city of Minab, Hormozgan Province. According to the letter, more than 168 students, predominantly girls aged seven to 12, as well as teachers and school staff, were martyred, while another 110 people sustained injuries.
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“The deliberate and indiscriminate killing of civilians, particularly children, and the destruction of civilian infrastructure, which undermines the foundations of the international legal order, cannot be normalized or justified merely as ‘collateral damage,’” Darzi wrote.
The senior diplomat described Iran’s retaliatory strikes in the face of such atrocities as the Islamic Republic’s acting under its “inherent right of self-defense under Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations.”
He called on the Security Council to condemn the atrocities, address the Kouhestak incident, include the attacks on Minab and Kouhestak in future reports on civilian protection, hold the United States accountable for resulting damage, and demand full reparation.
