Bagheri Kani made the remarks in a letter addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
The full textual content of the letter despatched by Iranian diplomats to the UN Secretary-General is beneath:
Your Honor,
In accordance with earlier letters of the Islamic Republic of Iran concerning the genocidal aggression of the Israeli occupation regime within the Gaza Strip, together with the letter of 19 January 2024 (A/78/77-S/2024/174), I take into account it essential to reiterate the very important function and unavoidable accountability of the United Nations with regard to the continued genocide within the Occupied Palestinian Territory by the Israeli regime.
Despite widespread condemnation and international outrage, and regardless of the International Court of Justice ruling of May 24, 2024 ordering the occupying and aggressing regime to “(a) instantly stop army offensives and different actions in Rafah Governorate that will impose dwelling situations that would bodily destroy, in entire or partly, on the Palestinian inhabitants in Gaza; (b) maintain open the Rafah crossing for the large-scale unhindered provision of urgently wanted fundamental companies and humanitarian help; and (c) take efficient measures to make sure unhindered entry to the Gaza Strip for any fee of inquiry, fact-finding mission or different investigative physique mandated by a reliable physique of the United Nations to research allegations of genocide,” the worldwide group witnessed extraordinarily horrific scenes in an airstrike on a refugee camp in Rafah, killing no less than 45 folks and representing a brand new stage in Israel’s genocide towards the State of Palestine.
This overcomes the irony that, even if over the previous three weeks, round a million harmless civilians have fled to Rafah to hunt refuge from the Israeli regime’s air strikes and floor operations, they’re struggling to outlive in fully unsuitable dwelling situations, with out meals or water, surrounded by mountains of waste, rubble and particles, feeling deserted, and even the flexibility of humanitarian organisations to offer help or safety has turn out to be all however unattainable as a result of genocidal actions of the occupying regime.
Your Honor,
I wish to reiterate that the worldwide group has a authorized and ethical obligation to forestall and halt the genocide of the Palestinian state. It is pressing that each one their humanitarian wants be met instantly and with out hindrance. The United Nations has an obligation to induce all its Member States to chorus from cooperation with the aggressor regime, which might quantity to complicity in essentially the most severe crimes of the worldwide group and would entail worldwide accountability. The Security Council, in flip, should assume its tasks on this regard as supplied for within the UN Charter.
The worldwide group has an obligation to urgently finish the continued atrocities within the Occupied Palestinian Territory and defend harmless civilians.
In this context, we strongly anticipate you to work with UN Member States to make use of all obtainable means to stress the Israeli regime to adjust to the International Court of Justice’s binding interim measures and stop the bloodbath of Palestinians.
Furthermore, I want to underline the duty to forestall genocide arising from the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Recalling the first accountability of the Security Council for the upkeep of worldwide peace and safety underneath Article 24 of the UN Charter, and your accountability underneath Article 99 of the identical Charter, I need to emphasize that the jus cogens nature of the duty to forestall genocide implies that all States, and particularly those who assist the Israeli regime, have a authorized obligation to forestall genocide, particularly by ceasing any help to the genocidal regime.
It can also be clear that any try by considered one of its everlasting members to make use of its veto to paralyze the Security Council by stopping it from taking acceptable measures to halt and stop Israel’s genocidal assaults in Gaza, together with Rafah, would maintain the Security Council accountable, and particularly that member who prevented the Security Council from adopting a binding decision to halt Israel’s aggression from the very starting of the genocidal try.
The time has come for the worldwide group to unite and pressure the Israeli aggressor regime to completely, instantly and successfully implement the provisional measures set out within the ICJ Orders of 26 January 2024, 28 March 2024 and 24 May 2024.
We are assured that underneath your succesful management, the worldwide demand for justice might be met.
Your Excellency, please settle for my assurance of the utmost consideration.
Ali Bagheri Crab
Acting Foreign Minister of Iran
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