Iran’s permanent mission to the UN has urged the Security Council to take concrete action to hold Israel to account for the crimes it has committed against the Islamic Republic for over four decades.

According to The Iran Project, in letters to UN chief António Guterres, Security Council president Barbara Woodward, and General Assembly head Philemon Yang, the mission stated that Israel’s anti-Iran actions are exemplified by its sustained campaign of targeted assassinations and terrorist acts.

It cited Israel's targeting of Iranian nuclear scientists, military advisors, diplomatic premises, and representatives as well as its sabotage of Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities.

“These unlawful and criminal acts which were perpetrated both within Iran and outside its borders began with the abduction of four Iranian diplomats in southern Beirut, Lebanon, on July 4, 1982," it said.

The mission was referring to three diplomats and a journalist kidnapped north of Beirut by Lebanese Christian militiamen during Israel's invasion of Lebanon. 

“Most recently, this pattern of aggression has come to include the terrorist attack employing explosive devices against Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon on September 17, 2024, the criminal assault on April 1, 2024, where Israel attacked Iranian diplomatic and consular premises in Damascus, the Arab Republic of Syria, and was followed by Israel’s act of aggression on October 26, 2024, against Iran’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in a gross violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations,” the letters read.