The UN Security Council will convene on Monday to discuss Israel’s attack on Iran

Switzerland, the president of the UN Security Council, said on Sunday that the council will convene on Monday to address Israel’s strike on Iran.

According to the Swiss U.N. mission, Iran sought the conference with assistance from China, Russia, and Algeria.

In a letter to the 15-member council on Saturday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi stated that the acts of the Israeli regime “represent a serious threat to international peace and security and further destabilize an already fragile region.”

He stated, “The Islamic Republic of Iran reserves its inherent right to legal and legitimate response to these criminal attacks at the appropriate time, in accordance with the principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter and under international law.”

According to Israel’s military, many Israeli planes carried out three rounds of attacks against missile facilities and other locations in western Iran and close to Tehran before daybreak on Saturday.

Israel asked its heavily armed arch-enemy not to retaliate following the most recent strike, which was reprisal for Iran’s October 1 attack on Israel with over 200 ballistic missiles.

In a statement released on Sunday, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, dismissed Iran’s protest, claiming that Iran was “trying to act against us in the diplomatic arena with the ridiculous claim that Israel has violated international law.”

“As we have stated time and time again, we have the right and duty to defend ourselves and will use all the means at our disposal to protect the citizens of Israel,” Danon stated.

In a statement released on Saturday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged “all parties to cease all military actions, including in Gaza and Lebanon, exert maximum efforts to prevent an all-out regional war, and return to the path of diplomacy.”