Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, condemned america’s involvement in its battle with Israel and mentioned the nation’s army would decide its response after President Trump on Saturday ordered the bombing of three of Iran’s nuclear websites.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly warned the warmongering U.S. regime to chorus from stumbling into this quagmire, though Iran reserves its full and bonafide proper beneath worldwide legislation to defend itself in opposition to this blatant U.S. aggression and its Israeli proxy,” he mentioned on the United Nations. “The timing, nature and the size of Iran’s proportionate response will likely be determined by its armed forces.”
The United Nations Safety Council held an emergency assembly on the escalating warfare on Sunday afternoon. Iran, the U.S. and Israel had been among the many nations that spoke concerning the assault in the course of the assembly.
Iravani described the motion because the U.S. serving to Israel perform its “vile agenda.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Trump on Saturday for steering U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear websites.
“President Trump and I usually say, ‘Peace via power.’ First comes power, then comes peace. And tonight, President Trump and america acted with loads of power,” Netanyahu mentioned in a video on the social platform X.
Iravani mentioned the Israeli prime minister had hijacked “U.S. international coverage, dragging america into one more pricey, baseless warfare.”
Dorothy Shea, the interim U.S. ambassador to the U.N., spoke forward of Iravani and defended Trump’s actions.
“Iran has lengthy obfuscated its nuclear weapons program and stonewalled good-faith efforts in latest negotiations … the time lastly got here for america within the protection of its ally and within the protection of our personal residents and curiosity, to behave decisively,” she mentioned in explaining Saturday’s bombing.
Shea instructed the council that Iran for many years “has been accountable for distress and numerous deaths throughout the Center East. Iran’s authorities and its proxies have additionally killed quite a few People, together with American service members in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
She accused Iranian officers of ramping up “hostile bluster and rhetoric” over latest weeks.