Iran urges the UN to break its silence as full report on Israeli war crimes is submitted
Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations has submitted a detailed and updated report to the UN Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council outlining war crimes committed by the Israeli regime during its 12-day military aggression against the Islamic Republic.
The report, which focuses in particular on the killing of women and children, was accompanied by a formal request for the document to be registered and distributed as an official UN Security Council paper.
The letter highlights the devastating human toll and widespread destruction caused by the Israeli attacks and calls attention to the legal and international responsibility of those behind the aggression.
The report states that between June 13 and June 24, 2025, Israeli airstrikes, drone attacks, and missile barrages claimed the lives of 1,100 innocent civilians, including 132 women and 45 children. More than 5,750 others were wounded during the sustained assault.
The attacks, backed by extensive military, intelligence, and political support from the United States and certain other Western governments, deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure, residential areas, hospitals, media offices, nuclear facilities under international supervision, and entire families.
The Iranian mission condemned the aggression as a gross violation of the UN Charter, international law, the Geneva Conventions, and international human rights frameworks. The letter urges the Security Council to end the Israeli regime’s “structural impunity” and take decisive measures to stop the crimes and hold perpetrators accountable.
The submitted report includes the names and details of many of the martyrs—particularly women and children—who lost their lives while in civilian locations such as their homes, schools, or workplaces. Among them are 30 schoolchildren, as well as the complete extermination of families, including the Seddiqi Saber, Zakerian, Sadati Aramaki, and Niyazmand households.
The report also documents Israeli attacks on the Hakim Children’s Hospital, several kindergartens, public parks, Evin Prison, and ambulances—further evidence of the regime’s disregard for humanitarian norms.
The letter reiterates Iran’s position that these acts constitute clear violations of international law and calls on the Security Council to take concrete steps to halt the aggression and prosecute those responsible.
In addition to the Security Council, the report has been submitted to the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, as well as to UNICEF.
The same pattern of impunity seen in the Israeli regime’s war on Gaza—carried out with full backing from the United States—was evident during the 12-day military aggression against Iran.
Just as in Gaza, where Israel has defied a binding provisional ruling by the International Court of Justice to halt genocidal acts and allow humanitarian aid, the Zionist regime continued its unlawful strikes on Iranian civilians, infrastructure, and even peaceful nuclear sites under IAEA safeguards.
Among the many documented violations, Israeli missiles targeted the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) headquarters in Tehran on June 16 in a clear attempt to silence media coverage and disrupt information flow—a tactic also employed repeatedly in Gaza. The act resulted in the martyrdom of three workers of IRIB. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) also strongly condemned the strikes.
With the United States supplying arms, intelligence, and diplomatic protection, including repeated vetoes at the UN Security Council, both wars have unfolded under a shield of Western-backed impunity. This coordinated disregard for international law has rendered global justice mechanisms ineffective, allowing war crimes and acts of collective punishment to continue unchecked from Gaza to Tehran.
More than a week following the start of Israeli strikes, the United States also entered the war against Tehran by bombing three Iranian nuclear sites in a grave violation of international law.
In response, the Iranian Armed Forces targeted strategic sites across the occupied territories as well as the al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military base in West Asia.
On June 24, Iran, through its successful retaliatory operations against both the Israeli regime and the U.S., managed to impose a halt to the terrorist assault.