Strikes around Iran and Israel’s nuclear sites risk unleashing an “unmitigated catastrophe”, the United Nations rights chief said, warning that the West Asia war had created an “extremely dangerous” situation.
Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council, where countries were holding an urgent debate on Tehran’s attacks across the Gulf, Volker Turk warned that many of the strikes in the weeks-long war “raise serious concerns under international law”.
In particular, Mr. Turk cautioned that “recent missile strikes near nuclear sites in both Israel and Iran underscore the immense danger of further escalation”.
“States are flirting with unmitigated catastrophe.”
