Iran’s foreign ministry summoned on Sunday the ambassadors of Britain, France, and Germany to question what it referred to as their “irresponsible stance” regarding Tehran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel, the semi-official Iranian Labour News Agency reported.

Iran launched a drone and missile attack against Israel on Saturday night and into Sunday in retaliation for Israel bombing its consulate in Syria on April 1. The three European nations have denounced this action.

Iran’s foreign ministry’s director for Western Europe charged the three nations with “double standards” when they refused to support a U.N. Security Council resolution that was drafted by Russia and would have denounced Israel’s attack on Iran’s embassy compound in Syria earlier this month.

“Iran’s military action against the Zionist regime’s (Israel) bases is well within the framework of the right to legitimate defence stipulated in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter and it is in response to a series of crimes, including the recent attack on the embassy compound in Syria,” the official added.

The G7, which includes France, Germany and the United Kingdom, is expected to hold a video call later on Sunday to discuss Iran’s recent attack.

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