Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, sent a letter to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, demanding that Arab states “make full reparation” to Iran for committing “internationally wrongful acts.”
The letter, published by the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency, claims Iran was “subjected to a flagrant act of aggression carried out jointly by the United States and the Israeli regime, in clear violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations.” The Kingdom of Bahrain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the State of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan have since perpetrated “acts of aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the letter argues.
Iravani proclaimed that the “conduct of those States in allowing their territories to be used by the aggressors against the Islamic Republic of Iran qualifies as an act of aggression,” and added that the states should “cease their internationally wrongful acts of allowing their territories to be used by the aggressors and, in certain instances, engaging in the commission of unlawful armed attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
He went on to urge the Arab states to “make full reparation to the Islamic Republic of Iran, including compensation for all material and moral damage sustained as a result of their internationally wrongful acts.”
Iran previously called for reparations as part of an agreement to end its ongoing conflict with Iran. Alongside war reparations, Iran demanded a halt to “aggression and assassinations” and recognition and guarantees that the Strait of Hormuz is in Iran’s control, among other desires.
