NEW YORK, DEC.21, (ST)- Iran has condemned the repeated Israeli attacks on Syria, stressing Damascus’s right of self-defense.
According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the Iranian Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to UN, Zahra Ershadi, renewed her country’s support for the unity and sovereignty of Syria during the meeting of the UN Security Council held yesterday.
Ershadi called on the UN Security Council to force the Israeli occupation entity to end its occupation of the occupied Syrian Golan and stop its attacks on Syrian territories immediately.
She strongly condemned Israeli attacks on Syria and stressed Syria’s right of self-defense , pointing out that the Security Council must force the Israeli entity to end its occupation of the Syrian Golan and immediately stop its attacks on Syria.
The Iranian diplomat in addition called for lifting the unilateral coercive measures imposed on Syria, asserting that these measures prolong the suffering of its people and negatively affect the activities of international and national humanitarian organizations in it.
She stressed the necessity of ensuring that foreign aid to Syria should be delivered to the needy and not to fall in the hands of terrorist groups.
Basma Qaddour