Condemns Iran's Attack On Israel, UN Secretary General: Stop Hostilities, The World Can't Go To War Anymore

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. (Wikimedia Commons/US Mission/Eric Bridiers)

JAKARTA - Secretary-General of the United Nations condemned Iran's attack on Israel, calling on all parties to exercise restraint to avoid a greater conflict in the Middle East.

"I strongly condemn the serious escalation shown by the massive attacks the Republic of Iran launched against Israel tonight. I call for an immediate cessation of this hostilities," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement on the UN website, as quoted on Sunday, April 14.

As previously reported, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed to have carried out an attack on Israel, saying it was in response to an attack on the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria that killed a number of Iranian military elites, citing IRNA.

"The attack is a response to various crimes committed by the Zionist regime, including attacks on the consular section of the Iranian Embassy in Damascus and the killing of a group of commanders and advisers to the military of our country in Syria," the statement said.

According to the IRGC Public Relations Office, details of the operation, carried out with the approval of the Highest National Security Council, under the supervision of the Iranian Armed Forces' General Staff, and with the support of the Army and Iran's Ministry of Defense, will soon be made public, citing Tasnim.

In Israel, an Israeli spokesman for Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Iran's drone and missile attacks against its country, saying their fighter jets and air defense systems were alerted to anticipate. "I am deeply concerned about the real dangers of devastating escalation across the region. I urge all parties to exercise maximum restraint to avoid any action that could lead to massive military confrontations in various fields in the Middle East," the UN Secretary-General said.

"I have repeatedly emphasized that both the region and the world are unable to carry out war anymore," he said.

Iran is known to have pledged to punish the Zionist regime for its deadly aggression against the country's diplomatic mission in Syria, which is considered to have violated international law and the Vienna Convention.

The April 1 attack killed seven members of the IRGC, with two of them being senior generals. Those killed were Major General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, Brigadier General Muhammad Hadi Haji-Rahimi, Hossein Amanollahi, Sayyid Mahdi Jaladati, Mohsen Sedaqat, Ali Agha Babaei and Sayyid Ali Salehi Roozabahi, citing Khamenei.ir.