The entire international community agreed this Sunday at the UN, during an emergency session of the Security Council requested by Israel, in a call to avoid escalation in the Middle East, to which even Iran joined.
However, Israel’s ambassador, Gilad Erdan, responded that no one had the right to ask his country to “stand by” following the attack with drones and missiles launched on Saturday night by Iran against Israel and the territories it occupies in Palestine and Syria, adding: “We are a nation of lions.”
There was great expectation about the tone that Iran and Israel would use before the Security Council, the only place in the world where representatives of these two countries without diplomatic relations sit just meters apart.
Both Erdan and the Iranian representative Saeed Iravani accused themselves of being the main actor in regional destabilization. For the Israeli, Iran has filled the region with ‘proxies’ (delegated agents) who tirelessly seek its destruction from Yemen, Lebanon or Syria through allied militias.
While Iravani recalled the multiple Security Council resolutions ignored by Israel in the Palestinian conflict or the powers that country gives itself to intervene extraterritorially, such as when on April 1 it attacked the Iranian Consulate in Damascus, killing 13 people (seven of them Iranians) without the international community reacting, the Iranian lamented.
The role of the United States
The involvement of the United States in the latest attack, recognized by Washington and Israel and which consisted of the interception of missiles launched from Iran, had raised the level of concern about the possible extension of the conflict, given the close alliance that the United States has. has with Israel.
And in fact, the Israeli ambassador expressly thanked the United States: “I wish to take this opportunity to thank the United States and our allies – he did not mention other names – for standing by our side and defending us against the ayatollah regime,” he said. Erdan.
Minutes later, the Iranian representative did not evade the issue but fled from the belligerent tone: his country – he said – “has no intention of entering into conflict with the United States in the region” and has demonstrated “commitment to peace, as well as restraint” after prove the involvement of the US in the interception of Iranian drones and missiles.
Now, if the United States were to go further and initiate an operation against Iranian citizens or interests, “we will use our inherent right to respond proportionately,” the diplomat warned.
For a de-escalation with different nuances
Requests to avoid escalation came from all mouths, starting with the Secretary General, António Guterres – who requested to intervene in this extraordinary session on Sunday – and continuing from Russia, China or the United States, usually opposed in almost everything.
Guterres said that “neither the region nor the world can afford another war,” and insisted three times on the “common responsibility” that the international community has to prevent an escalation between Iran and Israel, achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, guarantee the release of hostages held by Hamas and prevent a deterioration in violence in the West Bank.
The Russian ambassador, who also called for calm, did not fail to highlight “the hypocrisy and double standards (of the Security Council), which are almost embarrassing to look at,” given the fact that the attack against Israel has merited an urgent session. even on a Sunday, but this did not happen when Russia requested a similar one after Israel’s bombing of the Damascus consulate.
The elephant in the room today was called the Gaza war: with all countries holding their breath for a possible new war, there was a danger of forgetting the one that has actually been taking place in the Palestinian strip for six months.
However, the majority of speakers – with the exception of the Israeli – did not forget it and called for steps to achieve an immediate ceasefire, something even requested by the US and the United Kingdom, Israel’s unwavering allies, despite the fact that this country He refuses any kind of truce. EFE
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