DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry urged the U.N. Security Council to take “meaningful measures” to prevent threats to regional peace and security, after Tehran launched a salvo of missiles at Israel on Tuesday.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said the attack was retaliation for recent Israeli killings of militant leaders and aggression in Gaza and Lebanon. Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Revolutionary Guard deputy commander Abbas Nilforoushan were killed in Beirut last week.
“Our defensive operation is in line with international law and the right of self-defense … we only targeted military and security facilities,” the Foreign Ministry said in its statement regarding the missile attack on Israel.
In an earlier post on X, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran’s actions were “in defense of Iranian interests and citizens,” adding that his country was not looking for war but would “firmly stand against any threat.”
(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Editing by Daniel Wallis)