Iran has formally notified the United Nations about media reports alleging that the United States and Israel planned assassination operations targeting senior Iranian officials, including Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, Press TV reported.
In a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the president of the Security Council, Iran’s UN ambassador and permanent representative, Amir Saeed Iravani, expressed “serious concern” over reports that US and Israeli authorities had identified and designated high-ranking Iranian officials as targets and that any reported suspension of those plans appeared conditional and temporary.
Iravani warned the reports point to an operational framework aimed at killing Iran’s top political figures, calling the alleged policy a clear breach of peremptory norms of international law. He described such assassination plans against officials of a sovereign UN member state as a blatant violation of the UN Charter and international human rights law and said normalizing the targeting of senior government figures would amount to state terrorism with dangerous implications for international peace and security.
Separately, Iravani said he had lodged formal protests with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, accusing those states of permitting their territory and airspace to be used by US and Israeli forces in attacks on Iranian soil. He argued that states that make their territory available for acts of aggression bear international responsibility and urged them to prevent further use of their territory against Iran.
While noting respect for the sovereignty of those states, the ambassador stressed Tehran reserves the right to take all necessary measures, including exercising its inherent right of self-defence, to protect Iran’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence.
The notifications arrive amid an intensifying US–Israel–Iran confrontation now in its fourth week. The report said US President Donald Trump indicated a pause in operations after Tehran reportedly sought a seven-day halt to American strikes on its energy infrastructure; Trump extended the pause to 10 days, to April 6, though strikes by combined US–Israeli forces have continued.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also said it launched the 83rd wave of “Operation True Promise 4,” targeting what it described as key American and Israeli military installations in the region with advanced missiles and drones.
The letter to the UN and the protests to regional states were conveyed through Iran’s permanent mission in New York, according to the Press TV account.
