Iran calls Israeli strikes a crime against humanity, urges global action

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei opened his press conference in Tehran on Monday by displaying images of civilian victims, including children, killed in Israeli strikes.

• “It is the Zionist entity that is accustomed to killing innocent children, as they are doing in Gaza,” Baghaei said.

• He described Israel’s military actions against Iran not as a conventional conflict, but as an assault on all humanity.

• “It is a belligerence initiated by a criminal group, defying the international community and international law,” Baghaei stated.

• Urging immediate international intervention, he said: “All those who believe in peaceful coexistence and the rule of law must act to stop these brutal, ruthless crimes, to pressure this Zionist entity and bring it to account.”

• Baghaei called on allied nations to push for a binding resolution against Israel, declaring such a move a necessary first step.

• He condemned the Israeli strikes as a “baseless belligerence” and repeated Tehran’s position that the actions constitute a flagrant breach of international law.