In accordance with previous letters dated June 13, 2025 (S/2025/379), June 22, 2025 (S/2025/405), and June 28, 2025 (S/2025/429) regarding brazen acts of aggression by the United States and the Israeli regime against our country between June 13 and 24, 2025, I write as follows: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, in a formal letter to the United Nations Security Council, drew attention to the US President’s recent statements regarding the US’ leading role in the Israeli regime’s acts of aggression and its operatives’ war crimes against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
On November 6, 2025, the US President said, “Israel attacked (Iran) first. That attack was very powerful. I was in charge of it.” Under international law, this constitutes clear evidence of U.S. direction and control over the tort in question.
As previously announced, the act of aggression by the Israeli regime and the United States violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran and was in clear violation of Article 2, Section 4 of the United Nations Charter. It involved attacks on civilians and civilian objects in clear disregard of the principles of international law and international humanitarian law, resulting in the martyring of more than 1,100 innocent people and the injury of many others. It also involved unprovoked attacks on civilian infrastructure, including Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities, which are subject to IAEA safeguards, in clear violation of the UN Charter, the final document of the NPT Review Conference, and IAEA resolutions (e.g., Nos. 444 and 533). United Nations Security Council Resolution 487 1981 Page 2/3.
Therefore, international responsibility for the aforementioned violations falls not only on the Israeli regime, but also on the United States, which directed and controlled the former. Based on the foregoing, the United States is obligated to fully compensate Iran and its people for damages caused by such violations, including material and moral damages. This includes an obligation under established international law to compensate and compensate for the damage caused thereby.
On the other hand, the above confession also entails criminal liability for the President of the United States and other U.S. officials and individuals involved in serious violations of international humanitarian law, including crimes of aggression, directing deliberate attacks on civilians (including, among others, women and children, scientists, university professors, journalists, and prisoners), targeting military officials outside the hostilities, and launching deliberate attacks on civilian objects such as hospitals and ambulances, Iranian broadcasting centers, and prisons. Energy infrastructure, including peaceful nuclear facilities.
This certainly does not undermine the personal criminal liability of all individuals, including within the Israeli regime, who are involved in directing, ordering, committing, or aiding, abetting, or otherwise assisting in the commission of war crimes, including those mentioned above. Accordingly, the Islamic Republic of Iran reserves the full and unimpeachable right to pursue through all available legal means to seek to establish accountability against responsible states and individuals, and to secure reparation for the damages suffered.
It is the solemn expectation of the Islamic Republic of Iran that the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Security Council will take appropriate measures, in line with their responsibilities for the maintenance of international peace and security, with a view to ensuring accountability of the United States and Israeli regimes for these grave violations and bringing to justice the perpetrators of these crimes. I would appreciate it if you would circulate this letter as an official Security Council document. Sir, please accept my assurance of the utmost care.
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