Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York strongly protested against U.S. and Israel targeting multiple civilian infrastructure related to communications and space centre facilities, and also urged regional countries to prevent their territory being used for "military aggression".
“The U.S. and the Zionist regime shall bear entire international responsibility for damages and consequences resulting from their illegal actions and attacks against the civilian space and communication infrastructure of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Iran, Amir-Saeid Iravani, made the statement in an official letter of protest to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the Security Council’s President on Wednesday.
He warned that the adverse effects of attacks on the civilian infrastructure including the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and space facilities extend beyond the borders of Iran, according to the state-owned Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reporting from New York.
“Targeting ground stations and observatories disrupts space services of international interest, including environmental monitoring, disaster management, and global telecommunications.”
The letter added, “such actions undermine the collective interest in the peaceful use of outer space.”
Iran’s Ministry of ICT said it has developed an advanced indigenous telecommunications and remote-sensing satellite programme.
In early February, days before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, the Ministry displayed for the first time images captured by its Paya (Tolu 3) Earth observation satellite in a ceremony to commemorate the national Space Technology Day.
Last December, Paya, Zafar 2, and Kowsar remote-sensing satellites were launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from Vestochny spaceport complex in Russia’s Far East region of Amur Oblast.
The Iranian mission in New York also strongly protested to the U.S. use of the soil and airspace of Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia during 40 days of the Israeli-U.S. aggression against Iran.
“Taking into consideration the international responsibility of states arising from providing their territory to other countries to commit acts of aggression and to carry out armed attacks against the territory of a third state, the Islamic Republic of Iran expresses its strong and explicit protest against the aforementioned illegal act,” it said in a separate letter to the UN chief.
It called on the governments of Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the Emirates and Saudi Arabia to comply with the principles of good neighbourliness and “prevent the continued exploitation of their territory against the Islamic Republic of Iran”.
Iran carried out missile and drone strikes on U.S. military assets as well as American interests in the region in retaliation to attacks from U.S. bases in five Persian Gulf states.
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