New York: Europe and the Arabs
Following the attacks launched by Iran on Israel, the UN Security Council held an emergency session on the situation in the Middle East, during which the Secretary-General of the United Nations spoke alongside the fifteen member states of the Council and representatives of Israel, Iran and Syria. According to what was stated in the daily news bulletin on the United Nations website, it also stated, “The emergency meeting was held at the urgent request of the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations addressed to the Presidency of the Security Council, in which he said that Iran had launched “a direct attack from its territory with more than 200 drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles.” towards Israel in clear violation of the United Nations Charter and international law,” the letter stated.
The Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations also sent a letter to the President of the Security Council in which he said that “the Islamic Republic of Iran carried out a series of military strikes on Israeli military targets” in the context of exercising its right to “self-defense and in response to repeated Israeli aggression, especially its armed attack on Israeli diplomatic buildings.” "In Damascus, according to what was stated in the speech.
UN officials had condemned the "dangerous escalation represented by Iran's large-scale attack on Israel" and called for an immediate cessation of these hostilities.