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The United Nations Security Council convened an emergency session on Friday on the Iran-Israel conflict, between strikes and counter-moves.
The Council has adapted its original program to face the crisis rapidly evolving and also listened to the International Nuclear Dog supported by the United Nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
During the night from Thursday to Friday, the Israeli military strikes targeted nuclear structures throughout Iran, including the Natanz enrichment site.
Hossein Salami, head of the Islamic revolutionary guard body (IRGC), as well as several important nuclear scientists, were among those killed.
The strikes also caused significant damage, including according to dozens of civil victims, while the airspace in the region has been largely closed and the security forces are on alert.
Further Israeli strikes have been reported late on Friday, as well as launches of ballistic missiles by Iran, which according to what was reported have affected parts of Israel, including Tel Aviv.
Briefing the Council, Rafael Grossi, general manager of AIEA, the international nuclear dog supported by the United Nations, warned by the serious risks for regional stability and nuclear security.
Grossi said that his agency was in constant contact with the Iranian nuclear regulation authority to evaluate the state of the structures concerned and determine wider impacts on nuclear safety and safety.
“Iran confirmed that at the moment, only the website of the Natanz fuel enrichment system has been attacked in today’s strikes,” he said.
“This structure contains the fuel enrichment system and the pilot fuel enrichment system.
“In Natanz, the above ground part of the pilot fuel enrichment system, where Iran produced uranium enriched up to 60 % U-235, was destroyed.”
The head of the AIEA said that nuclear structures must never be attacked, regardless of the context or circumstances, as it could damage both people and the environment.
“These attacks have serious implications for nuclear security, security and guarantees, as well as regional and international peace and security.”
Grossi said that Aiea has constantly stressed that “armed attacks on nuclear structures could involve radioactive releases with serious consequences inside and beyond the boundaries of the state that has been attacked”.
“I repeat that any military action that jeopardizes the safety and safety of nuclear structures risks serious consequences for the people of Iran, the region and beyond.”
Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, underlined Israel’s determination to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.
“We know our enemies. We know their ideology. And when a regime builds ballistic missiles, it enriches the uranium to the level close to weapons and openly declares the intention to destroy us, we believe it.”
The Undersecretary General of the United Nations for political affairs, Rosemary to say it, said that Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear and military structures have marked a new dangerous escalation in the Middle East.
The best United Nations official told the ambassadors that the repercussions of the attacks were already reverberating.
“I repeat the sentence of the secretary general of any military escalation in the Middle East,” he said,
To you say it has urged both Israel and Iran to exercise maximum moderation and “avoid at all costs in a deeper and wider regional conflict”.
