Iravani commented on Tuesday in a letter addressed to the UN secretary-general and the president of the UN Safety Council.
“This brazen admission marks the primary time the Israeli regime has brazenly confessed to its accountability for this heinous crime,” Iravani stated.
He stated Israel’s confession underscores the worldwide accountability of the regime for its acts of terrorism and aggression.
“It additionally reaffirms the legitimacy and legality of Iran’s defensive response on 1 October 2024,” the Iranian diplomat stated.
Iravani reiterated that the occupying and terrorist regime of Israel stays probably the most severe risk to regional and worldwide peace and safety.
He urged the UN Safety Council to finish the impunity of a regime that flagrantly defies worldwide regulation and destabilizes the area.
The Iranian envoy additionally warned that continued silence of the Council would solely embolden this terrorist regime to commit extra atrocious crimes.
On Monday, Israel’s minister for navy affairs Israel Katz admitted his regime was answerable for the killing, the primary time an official admission had been made.
Katz additionally vowed that the Israeli regime would escalate its assaults towards Yemen, together with by staging assassinations.
Haniyeh was assassinated on July 31 after the regime carried out a focused killing operation towards the Iranian capital Tehran, to which he had travelled as an official visitor to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
The regime assassinated Haniyeh’s successor, Yahya Sinwar, in one other assault towards the Gaza Strip in October, and staged a focused killing strike towards Beirut in September that resulted within the assassination of Hezbollah chief Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah.
