UNITED NATIONS, June 14 (KUNA) -- Iran on June 14 said it is "ironic" and "hypocritical" that Israel, which "obstinately" continues to flout basic principles of the UN Charter and shows full contempt for all relevant Security Council resolutions, urges others to comply with those resolutions.
In a letter to Secretary-General Kofi Annan and in response to an Israeli letter in late May accusing Iran of "harbouring, financing, nurturing and supporting Hizbollah and other terrorist organization," Iranian envoy Javad Zarif rejected the accusation, stressing that Israel's aim is to distract the world's attention from its act of "state terrorism, war crimes and aggression" in the region.
"It is evident that no amount of deception campaigned by the Israeli regime can cloud the obvious fact that the regime has a history full of terrorism, unlawful policies and inhuman acts in defiance of basic principles of international law," Zarif wrote in his letter.