Gulf Arab states have told the UN Human Rights Council that they face an existential threat from Iranian attacks on their infrastructure, which the UN rights chief said might constitute war crimes, Reuters reports.

“We are seeing an existential threat to international and regional security. This aggressive approach is undermining international law and sovereignty,” Kuwait’s ambassador Naser Abdullah H. M. Alhayen told the Geneva-based council.

Other Gulf states said Iran’s actions were designed to spread terror, with the UAE ambassador Jamal Jama al Musharakh denouncing Iran’s “attempt to destabilise the international order through reckless adventures of expansionism”.

Countries at the 47-member council will vote on a motion condemning Iran’s “unprovoked and deliberate” strikes, seeking reparations from Iran and asking the UN rights chief to monitor the situation, a document showed.