"Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon demanded the United Nations Security Council condemn Iran on Thursday after claiming its forces launched a missile attack on the Golan Heights from Syria.
In a fiery letter also addressed to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Danon stated that 'Israel holds the government of Iran, together with the Syrian regime, directly responsible for this attack and we will continue to defend our citizens vigorously against all acts of aggression.'
'Israel is not interested in escalation, but under no circumstances will we allow Iran to establish a military presence in Syria whose purpose is to attack Israel and to deteriorate an already fragile situation in the region,' wrote Danon...
'This brazen attack on our sovereignty does not come in a vacuum,' Danon continued. 'We have cautioned repeatedly of Iran's alarming entrenchment in Syria and this act of aggression is regrettably a realization of these very warnings.'
'I call on the Security Council to immediately condemn this attack and demand that Iran remove its military presence from Syria that not only threatens Israel, but the stability of our entire region. The international community must not stand idly by while a tyrannical regime attacks a sovereign nation and continues to threaten the very existence of a member-state of the United Nations,' the ambassador added..."