Gharibabadi made the remarks in a post on X on Tuesday, after Trump announced on Monday night that he had spoken by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, resulting in Israel canceling plans to strike Beirut.

Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement have been engaged in fighting since early March, after Hezbollah launched attacks on Israeli positions in retaliation for the regime’s assassination of the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, on February 28. Prior to the clashes, Israel had been carrying out daily attacks on southern Lebanon without any response from Hezbollah, despite a ceasefire agreement between the two sides that came into force in late November 2024.

“The current developments in Lebanon, Syria, and occupied al-Quds have made one reality even clearer: the region’s crisis is not the result of ‘sporadic tensions,’ but rather the product of the crimes and impunity of the Zionist regime, which violates the sovereignty of states, renders ceasefires meaningless, and desecrates Palestinian holy sites,” Gharibabadi wrote.

He called on the UN Security Council to “move beyond merely expressing concern and issuing broad calls and instead adopt binding and punitive measures against the Zionist regime.”

“International law cannot be upheld through low-cost and ineffective condemnations,” he added.

“If the decision to attack the capital of an independent state can be changed with a single phone call, the main question is why months of ceasefire violations, aggression against Lebanon, the displacement of civilians, and threats to the country’s sovereignty continued with Western political and military support,” the Iranian official wrote.

He added that Trump’s intervention to dissuade Netanyahu from launching a major attack on Beirut “is less a sign of Washington’s commitment to peace than proof of America’s direct role in managing the acts of aggression by the Zionist regime.”