Iran charged in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday that the United States illegally attacked its consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil last week and demanded the immediate release of five detained Iranians. In its letter, Iran’s deputy ambassador Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi strongly condemned the Jan. 11 raid and accused the U.S. of “another flagrant violation of the basic principles of international law” and diplomatic conventions which bar attacks on diplomatic missions. Full Story
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