According to Iranian media reports on the 27th, Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations has written to the United Nations to protest against the targeting of Iran’s Speaker of Parliament and Foreign Minister for assassination, saying reports that two people have been temporarily removed from U.S. and Israeli kill lists confirm the existence of assassination threats, “This threat stems from a criminal mentality and it is deeply worrying that they openly call the ‘rules of engagement’ ‘stupid’ .”.
In his letter, Ilavani expressed the hope that members of the United Nations Security Council“Immediately attention to the media published reports.”. These reports indicate that a framework for the assassination of senior Iranian officials does exist and has been systematically carried out since the start of the war.
“Such policies are a grave violation of international law,” he said. The conditionality attached to the so-called“Moratorium” also confirms that the threat remains real, deliberate and ongoing. This threat stems from a criminal mentality, and they openly call the ‘rules of engagement’ ‘stupid’ , which is deeply worrying.”
On the 25th, the U.S. Wall Street Journal quoted U.S. officials as saying that Iranian Speaker of Parliament Ali Babaf and Foreign Minister Aragazi have been temporarily removed from the U.S.-ISRAELI removal list for a period of 4 to 5 days, to promote us-iran negotiations.
Reuters later reported that Israel planned to assassinate khalibaf and al-aragazi, have their whereabouts. Pakistan informed the United States after the news, if the two men were assassinated, no one in Iran will negotiate with the United States. The asked Israel to temporarily remove the two men from its hit list. (end)