“The aggressor Zionist regime bears full responsibility for its consequences and the Islamic Republic of Iran reserves its legitimate and inherent right under international law and the United Nations Charter to take a decisive response to such reprehensible acts,” the statement said on Monday.
In addition, the statement asked to convene a UN Security Council meeting, calling the attack on its consulate “a huge violation of international law.”
Russia has called for a UN Security Council meeting in response to Israel's airstrike on an Iranian consulate in Syria. It will be held on April 2, the Russian Foreign Ministry said later.
"After the Israeli air attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, the Iranians turned to the UN Security Council with a request to condemn this action. In follow-up to the Iranians’ letter, we requested an open meeting of the UN Security Council. The Maltese Presidency scheduled it for 15:00 New York time [19:00 GMT] on April 2," Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy said on Telegram.
Earlier in the day, Iranian ambassador to Syria Hossein Akbari said that several military advisers from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) were killed on Monday in an Israeli air force attack on the Iranian consulate general in Damascus.