Self-Defense against Attacks on Diplomatic Premises? Interpretation or Expansion of the United Nations Charter

In response to the previous Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus, which resulted in the martyrdom of a number of high-ranking military commanders, the Islamic Republic of Iran targeted several military sites in the occupied territories on April 16 in a combined missile-drone attack. Given that international law prohibits the threat or use of military force, the actions taken will only be legal if they are in the form of self-defense. Therefore, this study seeks to examine the applicability of the conditions of self-defense to Iran's retaliatory attack on Israel. The results of the authors' descriptive-analytical studies confirm that Israel's initial attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria was an example of an armed attack that entitled Iran to self-defense, and as a result, Iran exercised this right by observing the other conditions set forth in Article 51 of the Charter.