Iran’s foreign minister has defended the country’s missile and drone attacks on Israel as “legitimate defence under international law” in remarks to the United Nations Security Council in New York on Thursday. Hossein Amirabdollahian cited the suspected Israeli airstrike on Iran’s embassy compound in the Syrian capital Damascus on April 1 as the reason for the retaliatory attacks and criticized the United States, the United Kingdom and France for failing to condemn the Israeli strike. Amirabdollahian described the attacks on Israel as “absolutely necessary” in the face of “an attack on the emb…