By Xinhua
Jerusalem : The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Monday instructed its UN delegation to refer a letter of complaint and protest to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) over Iran’s remarks about the imminent demise of the Jewish state.
In a letter of condolences to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallahon the killing of its operational officer Imad Mughniyeh, Mohammad Ali Jaafari, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards said that he believed “the cancerous bacterium called Israel” would be soon destroyed by the Lebanese Hezbollah militant groups.
In response, Israeli Foreign Ministry said that the comments which call for the destruction of Israel represent severe anti-Semitism and racism, local media reported.
“We hope that the Security Council will address Israel’s complaint and will publish a letter of condemnation as it has done twice in the past following statements made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Israel’s destruction and Holocaust denial,” Rony Adam, director of the Department for UN affairs in the Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying.
Iran’s behavior is a grave and blatant transgression of the UN charter because “this is a shameful and unprecedented comment and a UN member state cannot say things like this about another member”, he said.
Hezbollah and its Iranian backers swiftly blamed Israel for last week’s assassination of Imad Mughniyeh in a car bomb in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
The Jewish government denied any involvement, but Israel is widely believed to have carried out similarly daring, complex and deadly strikes against other terror masterminds in the past.
Hezbollah vowed to hit Jewish targets outside Israel in retaliation for Mughniyeh’s assassination.