Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for legal and international affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, says that the regional instability in the Gulf is the result of “crimes and impunity” by Israel.

In a post on X, Gharibabadi said, “The current transformations in Lebanon, Syria, and the occupied Al-Quds have made one reality even clearer: the regional crisis is not the result of ‘scattered tensions’; it is the product of the crimes and impunity of the Zionist regime”.

He said that Israel has violated “the sovereignty of governments, renders ceasefires meaningless, and desecrates the sanctities of the Palestinians”.

He called on the UN Security Council to “move beyond the stage of expressing concern and issuing general calls, and adopt punitive and binding decisions against the Zionist regime.

“International law is not upheld through low-cost and ineffective condemnations,” he added.