MOSCOW, April 16. The UN Security Council should have condemned the Israeli attack on the Iranian Consulate General in Damascus, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the air of the “Evening with Vladimir Solovyov” program on the Rossiya-1 TV channel.
«Why doesn't it work? <…> Because there are countries that do not allow the use of its resource base. <…> There was an attack on a consular facility. This is not some empty and uninhabited territory. This is a functioning consulate, which has all the immunities under the Vienna Conventions. It was destroyed, the people who were there were killed,” she emphasized.
According to the diplomat, this situation cannot be provoked for further escalation, it is necessary. do everything for the UN Security Council to start working.
Escalation between Iran and Israel On April 1, the Israeli Air Force attacked the Iranian Consulate General building in Damascus. As a result, seven officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed, including two high-ranking general advisers.
On Saturday, April 13, Iran, citing Article 51 of the UN Charter on the right to self-defense, attacked the territory of the Jewish states. According to media reports, 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 surface-to-surface missiles were fired. It is alleged that Tel Aviv shot down most of the shells outside the country. American and British troops took part in repelling the strikes.
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The IRGC stated that that they destroyed important military targets in the territories “occupied” by Israel. The head of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, clarified that Tehran had completed Operation True Promise, but warned that it would continue to act in the event of an escalation on the part of Tel Aviv.
As Prime Minister of the Jewish State Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized, Israel will respond to attack wisely, not emotionally, and this will be done in coordination with the United States.