Israel submitted a letter to the United Nations Security Council protesting recent statements by Iranian leaders against Israel.
“Over the past several days, the most senior Iranian leaders have issued yet another series of outrageous statements, which called for the destruction of Israel and spread the vile anti-Semitism that forms the core of their ideology,” Israeli Chargés d’Affaires to the Security Council Israel Nitzan wrote Aug. 20 in a letter to Gérard Araud, president of the Security Council. The letter was also sent to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The letter quoted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying that “the very existence of the Zionist regime is … an affront to all world nations” and calling on “all human communities to wipe out this scarlet letter, meaning the Zionist regime, from the forehead of humanity.” — jta