Iran calls on Security Council to convene emergency meeting on Lebanon

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Iran on Saturday called on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to convene an emergency meeting to address the latest situation in Lebanon.

"I am writing to urgently bring to your attention, and that of members of the Security Council, the latest cruel acts against Lebanon," Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani said in a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Samuel Zbogar, president of the Security Council for September.

Denouncing Israel's devastating airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs that killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah as "a flagrant act of terrorist aggression," he said that Israel's "brazen acts of aggression" pose a grave threat to regional and international peace and security, pushing the entire region into an all-out catastrophe.

Given the grave consequences on regional and international peace and security, Iran called on the Security Council to unequivocally condemn Israel's actions in the strongest possible terms, he said. ■