Iran protests to UN Security Council, Secretary-General over Israeli threat
New York, June 8, IRNA - Iran news agency
www2.irna.com/en/news/view/menu-234/0806084927102008.htm

Iranian Permanent Representative to United Nations Mohammad Khazaee lodged
protest with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council over
Israeli threats to Iran.

Upon instruction from my Government and in pursuance of the previous letters
of this Mission, including the letters circulated as documents
A/61/571-S/2006/884, A/61/954-S/2007/354 and A/62/705-S/2008/117, regarding
the blatant violation of the most basic principles of international law by
the Israeli regime in making threats against the Islamic Republic of Iran, I
wish to draw your attention to the following:

Emboldened by the absence of any action by the Security Council, and in full
contempt for the most basic provisions of the Charter of the United Nations,
particularly the provisions which call for refraining "from the threat or
use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of
any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the
United Nations", the Israeli regime's officials, in continuation of their
aggressive policies and unlawful practices, have relentlessly and in full
impunity continued to make threats of resorting to force against the Islamic
Republic of Iran under false pretexts.

This Mission has, through previous communications in particular the above
mentioned letters, brought to the attention of the Secretary General and the
Security Council's Presidents some of the instances that the Israeli regime
has threatened to use force against my country.

Once again, as reported by the media on 6 June 2008, the Israeli Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister of Transportation, Shaul Mofaz, has repeated the
same insolent threat of use of force against the Islamic Republic of Iran in
an interview with an Israeli newspaper by saying that Israel "will attack
Iran? attacking Iran, in order to stop its nuclear plans, will be
unavoidable".

Such a dangerous threat against a sovereign State and a member of the United
Nations constitutes a manifest violation of international law and
contravenes the most fundamental principles of the Charter of the United
Nations, and, thus , requires a resolute and clear response on the part of
the United Nations, particularly the Security Council.

Threatening to resort to force by various officials of the Israeli regime
against the Islamic Republic of Iran is indeed a manifestation of threat to
international and regional peace and security by a regime whose policies and
practices are based on aggression, state terrorism and defiance of all basic
principles of international law.

Regrettably, the inaction of the Security Council in addressing such Israeli
policies and the impunity with which the said regime has been allowed to
insist on threatening other countries, has emboldened it to continue and
even increase its unlawful behaviors and policies, to the extent that it
engages as a matter of routine policy to openly threaten to use force
against a member of the United Nations.

It is well known to the international community that the Israeli regime,
which has never been a party to the international instruments on the
prohibition of Weapons of Mass Destruction, has clandestinely developed
nuclear weapons. Undoubtedly, nuclear weapons in the hands of an
irresponsible regime with a long record of war crimes and crimes against
humanity poses the most immediate and serious threat that the world and the
region are facing.

Contrary to the baseless allegations fabricated by the Zionist regime, the
Islamic Republic of Iran has unambiguously and vehemently rejected and
opposed all kinds of weapons of mass destruction, including the nuclear
weapons. As a State Party to Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), Biological
Weapons Convention (BWC) and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons, the Islamic Republic of Iran has on many occasions officially
declared that weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, as the
most inhumane weapons, have no place in the defense doctrine of the country.

I wish to reiterate my Government's position that while the Islamic Republic
of Iran has no intention to attack any other nations; nonetheless, in
accordance with its inherent right under Article 51 of the Charter of the
United Nations, it would not hesitate to act in self-defense to respond to
any attack against the Iranian nation and to take appropriate defensive
measures to protect itself.

"I am also sending an identical letter to the President of the Security
Council," he said in his letter to Ban Ki-moon.