UN rights experts condemn unlawful US-Israeli aggression against Iran

UN human rights experts have denounced the unlawful act of aggression waged by the United States and Israel against Iran, saying the assault violates the UN Charter’s article on prohibition of the use of force.

“Unprovoked attacks by the US and Israel — launched amid diplomatic negotiations and without authorization from the Security Council — violate the fundamental prohibition on the use of force, sovereign equality, territorial integrity, and the duty to peacefully settle disputes under Article 2 of the UN Charter. They also violate the right to life,” they said on Wednesday.

They also noted that illegal military intervention is not a solution to Iran’s nuclear issue, among others.
The strikes against Iran are part of a broader pattern of US-Israeli “unilateral actions destabilizing the entire region including by causing the arbitrary displacement of thousands,” they added.

The experts further condemned the attack on a primary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab that killed more than 165 people, including at 110 kids, and injured many others.

They also highlighted attacks on other densely populated areas, the Iranian Red Crescent, and numerous other hospitals, including Tehran’s Gandhi Hospital and Khatam al-Anbia Hospital.

“The targeting of civilians, educational facilities, and medical institutions constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law and human rights law,” they said.

Meanwhile, the UN experts called for an immediate end to the war, saying, civilians are bearing the brunt of the conflict.

FM Araghchi: Trump betrayed diplomacy, Americans by attacking Iran

Iran’s FM says Trump betrayed the indirect negotiations and the American people by attacking Iran.

The regimes in Washington and Tel Aviv began their criminal aggression against Iran on Saturday morning by assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. So far, at least 1,045 Iranian people have been people killed in the terrorist air raids.

Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the illegal aggression by launching barrages of missile and drone attacks on the Israeli-occupied territories as well as on the US assets in regional countries.

Additionally, the UN human rights experts expressed concern about the multiple attacks launched by Israel on Lebanon.

They said the Israeli strikes violate international law and the ceasefire agreement between the Tel Aviv regime and the Hezbollah resistance group, while displacing, injuring and killing civilians.

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