Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon, slammed Iran’s UN representative as "a wolf disguised as a diplomat," during a fiery session of the Security Council on Saturday, hours before the US struck three nuclear sites in Iran. 

Following the US strike on nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, which President Donald Trump said had been "totally obliterated," Iran’s Ambassador to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani demanded another "emergency meeting" of the Security Council calling for condemnation "in the strongest possible terms" of the US actions and for it not to go "unpunished."

"The Islamic Republic of Iran urgently requests the Security Council to convene an emergency meeting without delay to address this blatant and unlawful act of aggression," Iravani wrote in a letter to UN Secretary General António Guterres.

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Iravani called the US strikes "premeditated, and unprovoked," and said it was a "flagrant violation of international law."

Earlier, Danon, in response to similar allegations against Israel, highlighted the council’s hypcoricy, callilng the Iranian representative a "wolf disguised as a diplomat." 

"How dare a representative of a regime that finances, arms and orchestrates terrorism all over the world, ask for compassion from this Council?" Danon said during a council session on Saturday. "You are not a victim. You are not a diplomat. You are a wolf disguised as a diplomat, and we are done pretending otherwise." 

Following the US strike on Iran, which included five to six bunker buster bombs dropped on Fordow nuclear site and some 30 Tomahawk missiles fired against sites in Natanz and Isfahan, Danon told Fox News Digital that "after decades of ignoring the International community, Iran is trying to play victim and ask for sympathy from the Security Council." 

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"Sec Gen Guterres should be thanking President Trump for taking action and making the world a safer place — instead of condemning the U.S. for promoting peace through strength," Danon told Fox News Digital.

"After years of the UN’s incompetence that allowed Iran to accelerate its dangerous nuclear weapons program, the U.S. has acted forcefully to prevent a destructive nuclear Iran from threatening Israel, the U.S. and the free world," he said. 

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"I am gravely alarmed by the use of force by the United States against Iran today. This is a dangerous escalation in a region already on the edge – and a direct threat to international peace and security," Guterres said in a statement.

"There is a growing risk that this conflict could rapidly get out of control – with catastrophic consequences for civilians, the region, and the world," he added, calling on UN member states to "de-escalate and to uphold their obligations under the UN Charter and other rules of international law."

An Iranian missile attack on Israel on Sunday, hours after the US struck nuclear facilities in Iran, scored direct hits in the cities of Tel Aviv, Haifa and Nes Ziona, causing widespread destruction but no immediate fatalities, Israeli authorities said.

Images shared by Israel’s first responders showed multistorey buildings with their sides blown away and windows shattered and single-family homes in ruins, as rescue crews searched the debris for survivors.

Israel’s first aid agency, Magen David Adom, said there were no initial reports of fatalities but dozens were injured and evacuated to hospital.

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In a press briefing, Tel Aviv’s Mayor Ron Huldai said the damage in his city was "very extensive but in terms of human life, we are okay."

"Houses here were hit very, very badly," he said, adding that "fortunately, one of them was slated for demolition and reconstruction, so there were no residents inside. Those who were in the shelter are all safe and well."

In Nes Ziona, a town just south of Tel Aviv, a house was directly hit by a missile and the surrounding buildings destroyed, but, according to Israeli media reports, the families were in their shelter.

Israel’s home front command on Sunday put the country back onto emergency footing, days after some of the restrictions on commercial centers and larger gatherings had been eased.

Retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Saturday that he was impressed by the U.S. strikes against Iran's nuclear sites, praising President Donald Trump's use of "deception and trickery."

"I‘m fascinated and, candidly, I‘m impressed," he said. "I never really could understand what the two-week pause meant, or what it was for, what was left to negotiate, what were we going to expect the Iranians to offer? In many ways, it was much like a Trump deal. I mean, he‘s trying to make a deal to buy an apartment, but all of a sudden the apartment was destroyed, so where‘s the negotiation? So I think the use of deception and trickery in this case, first of all, was successful. But second of all, saved the potential loss of American lives."

Trump announced Saturday that the U.S. had struck three Iranian nuclear sites. The president said the Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities were "totally obliterated" during a brief address from the White House.

Cooper also asked Kimmitt about the effects and what U.S. forces should be worried about in the region.

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"They should be very concerned," Kimmitt said. "Look, the Iranians are down, but they’re not out. The fact remains is the proxy networks, while diminished, are still lethal. You take a look at the significant number of Iranian-backed militias in Iraq alone, they can put up quite a fight and put a significant amount of American interests, American troops, American infrastructure at risk." 

Kimmitt served as the assistant Secretary of State for political-military affairs under former President George W. Bush. 

Trump addressed the nation following the U.S. military's strikes on the trio of Iranian nuclear facilities.

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"A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan," he said. "Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity, and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success." 

He said Iran was now backed into a corner and "must now make peace."

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The president also threatened far greater attacks against Iran if the country didn't come to the table.

Fox News' Emma Colton contributed to this report.