Iran: Justifying 'outrageous' Israeli attacks on Iran is complicity
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has called on the international community to condemn Israel's attacks on his country.
"Any justification for this unjust and criminal war would be tantamount to complicity," the minister told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, shortly before a planned meeting with top EU officials.
The attacks were "an outrageous act of aggression by a regime that has been committing a horrible genocide in Palestine for the past two years," Araghchi said.
"The world, every state, every UN mechanism and body has to be alarmed and has to act now to stop the aggressor, to end impunity, and to hold the criminals accountable for their unending atrocities and crimes in our region," he said.
When it came to the possibility of negotiations, Araghchi pointed out that Iran was "attacked in the midst of an ongoing diplomatic process" with the United States. Planned talks over Iran's controversial nuclear programme were cancelled days after the conflict began.
Israel says Iran was close to being able to build a nuclear bomb - a charge Iran has always denied.
Araghchi referred to Israel's airstrikes targeting nuclear facilities, saying: "Our peaceful nuclear facilities have also been targeted despite despite their being under full monitoring of IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] and despite the fact that attacking such facilities are absolutely banned under international law." He pointed out "the danger of environmental and health catastrophe as the result of radiological leakage."
According to official figures, 24 people in Israel have been killed and more than 1,200 injured by Iranian attacks since the start of the conflict between Iran and Israel.
According to the US-based human rights network HRANA, more than 650 people have been killed and more than 2,000 injured in Iran as a result of the attacks.
The network relies on sources on the ground and publicly accessible sources. The Iranian government itself does not publish figures on injuries and fatalities.
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