The UN Security Council helped give rise to Saturday's Iranian attack against Israel by hypocritically failing to take action over the illegal bombing that provoked the latest violence in the region, Russia's ambassador to the global body has claimed.
Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told members of the UN Security Council on Sunday:
"What happened on the night of April 14 did not happen in a vacuum. The steps undertaken by Iran became a reaction to the disgraceful inaction by this council."At issue was the April 1 missile strike that killed seven Iranian military officers, including two senior commanders, at Tehran's consulate in Damascus. Western members of the Security Council stood in the way of rebuking Israel over the "egregious attack," despite the fact that it was a violation of international law on the inviolability of diplomatic installations, the Russian envoy said.
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