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Iran UNSC complaint

Iran has filed a complaint at the United Nations Security Council following the threat by the Israeli regime to assassinate the new leader of the Islamic revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei.
Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations described the regime’s war minister statement that Ayatollah Khamenei "has been marked for death" as a clear example of state terrorism and a blatant violation of the United Nations Charter. In an official letter to the UN Secretary General and the Security Council president, Amir Saeid Iravani emphasized that such threats are part of the Israeli regime's systematic policy of assassinating senior Iranian officials. The Iranian diplomat pointed out that the Security Council's silence towards Israel’s crimes has emboldened the regime to continue its actions. Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also issued a warning that any threat against the Iranian people or the country's leadership would trigger an immediate and powerful response from Tehran. 

 Slamming US-led regional summit

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi slams a US-led regional summit in Bahrain, rejecting Western attempts to dictate security frameworks in the Persian Gulf and Hormuz Strait. 
Gharibabadi dismissed both the legitimacy of the military summit and the authority of the American command structure in the region. He said Hormuz is defined under Iran's command, not CENTCOM. He maintained that a military summit in Bahrain cannot establish legal order and security for the Persian Gulf. He said the West Asia's security will be ensured through withdrawal of the US forces from the region, as well as respect for countries’ sovereignty and accepting new geopolitical realities. CENTCOM on Wednesday spearheaded a security dialogue hosted by Bahrain, bringing together top military officials from 12 nations to address the current security landscape in West Asia.

Israel violations in Palestine

The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has slammed the Israeli parliament’s preliminary approval of a draft law to ban the call to prayer in mosques across the occupied territories, including the city of al-Quds.
Hamas described the move as a dangerous escalation in the regime’s religious war against Palestinians’ holy sites and Islamic identity. It stressed that the draft law also constitutes a flagrant assault on freedom of worship, and a blatant violation of international covenants that guarantee the freedom to practice religious rituals, and protect places of worship. The movement said the Zionist regime’s insistence in enacting racist laws, which target everything that is Arab and Islamic, reveals the extent of extremism governing its policies. Hamas noted that the new law also confirms Israel’s determination to pursue Judaization plans that seek to erase the Islamic identity of Palestine.

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