Talking at a UN Safety Council session on the “Scenario within the Center East, together with the Palestine difficulty,” Iranian Ambassador to the UN Saeed Iravani stated that if the worldwide neighborhood, particularly the Safety Council, stays utterly silent on the Zionist regime’s acts of aggression, Israel will doing so encourages them to commit extra atrocities and aggression.
Beneath is the total textual content of his speech:
Mister President,
Final yr was a lethal yr within the Occupied Palestinian Territories because the Israeli regime’s oppressive, expansionist and apartheid practices towards the Palestinians continued unabated. Consequently, the Palestinian individuals, particularly girls and kids, have suffered extreme deprivation and violations of their fundamental rights. Inhumane blockades have turned Gaza into the biggest open-air jail on the planet.
Mister President,
The Israeli regime’s current invasion of Al-Aqsa Mosque on January three violated the sanctity and worship rites of the mosque and was a brazen provocation of Muslim sentiments.
This illegality and recklessness has critical penalties that shouldn’t be underestimated; subsequently, if not correctly addressed, it will probably additional destabilize an already fragile state of affairs and threaten regional and worldwide peace and safety.
Mister President,
For greater than 70 years, the Israeli regime has dedicated these atrocities with out accountability or penalties. Apartheid continues to be in pressure and the occupation is just not but over.
Within the meantime, the feasibility of building a Palestinian state is tough and even meaningless as a result of Israeli regime’s ongoing settlement actions, that are blatantly prohibited by worldwide regulation and related UN resolutions.
We consider that the battle within the occupied Palestinian territory can solely be resolved when the occupation is ended and the inalienable proper of the Palestinian individuals to self-determination is totally recognised, upheld and guarded. It will result in the total restoration of Palestinian sovereignty over your complete Palestinian territory.
However so long as the Safety Council stays silent, that is unattainable. The Council’s present place has executed nothing apart from strengthen and encourage the Israeli regime to hold out its brutal occupation and crimes towards the Palestinian individuals.
Mister President,
What threshold should the Israeli regime cross, because the Everlasting Consultant of Palestine rightly identified, for the Safety Council to get up from its hibernation and perform its duties beneath the UN Constitution?
As we’ve repeatedly acknowledged, if the worldwide neighborhood, significantly the Safety Council, stays utterly silent on the Israeli regime’s ongoing aggression, the Israeli regime can be inspired to commit additional atrocities and aggression.
The UN Safety Council should act promptly and decisively to help the Palestinian individuals. Sympathy alone is just not sufficient.
All conflict crimes, acts of state terrorism and ongoing human rights abuses perpetrated by the Israeli regime towards the Palestinian individuals should be held accountable and prosecuted. These atrocities are effectively documented and irrefutable.
Due to this fact, the Safety Council is dedicated to upholding the mandate of the Constitution to keep up worldwide peace and safety and to carry the Israeli regime accountable for its crimes by any authorized means at its disposal.
Mister President,
The Islamic Republic of Iran welcomes the Basic Meeting’s request to the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ) in a decision (A/RES/77/247) adopted on 30 December 2022 for an advisory opinion on the authorized penalties of Israel’s ongoing violations of the rights of the Palestinian individuals to self-determination and its continued occupation, colonization and annexation of Palestinian territory. We consider that this motion might contribute to the liberation of your complete Palestinian Territories.
The Islamic Republic of Iran acknowledges its obligation to guard the reputable rights of the Palestinian individuals to oppose the oppression and violence of the apartheid regime in accordance with their proper to self-determination. It will stay our everlasting place till the tip of the occupation.
And eventually, Mr President, in accordance with the standard apply of the Israeli regime, the regime’s consultant once more deviated from the topic of the Council’s dialogue and tried to manufacture and misinform abuse this Chamber, falsely accusing Iran of shameful actions for which the Israeli regime is liable for engagement within the area and elsewhere.
Iran firmly denies such absurd claims. These unfounded accusations have a transparent purpose: to divert consideration from the primary difficulty, specifically the atrocities dedicated by the apartheid regime towards the Palestinian individuals and its systematic and deliberate violations of human rights and worldwide humanitarian regulation within the Palestinian occupied territories.
Thanks Mr President