Shafaqna Pakistan: Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations Security Council, sharply criticised the Council on Wednesday for what he described as its failure to address the conflict involving United States and Israel against Iran.
Speaking before the Security Council, Amir Saeid Iravani said it was regrettable that the Council had not fulfilled its responsibilities in the face of what he called a grave violation, alleging obstruction by a permanent member that is itself an aggressor.
He stated that the United States and Israel, along with those who supported or facilitated the alleged aggression, must bear full legal and international responsibility for what he described as serious violations.
He further warned that impunity for such actions would not only betray victims but also threaten broader international peace and security.
Iravani further told the body tasked with ensuring international peace and security that it “must not remain silent or indifferent to the repeated and daily baseless threats made by the President of the United States against Iran,” saying US President Donald Trump’s rhetoric “sets a dangerous precedent.”
The threats listed by the envoy included “explicit threat to bomb Iran ‘back to the Stone Age,’” destroy the country’s energy, economic and industrial infrastructure, target Iranian nuclear scientists and senior officials, and “even rhetoric implying the destruction of Iran’s civilisation,” according to IRNA news. “The normalisation of such threats of force, acts of aggression, and inflammatory rhetoric by a permanent member of the Security Council sets a dangerous precedent,” he said.
Iravani warned that civilians were bearing an ever-greater burden of deliberate attacks, collective punishment and the methodical destruction of civilian infrastructure. A “tragic reality,” he said, that is “evident from Gaza to Lebanon, and most recently in the aggression against Iran.”
The envoy said the US-Israeli war had once again laid bare the “harsh reality” of how international humanitarian law was being violated.
“During forty days of this unwarranted and savage war, the aggressors have committed grave and systematic violations of international humanitarian law by deliberately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure,” he said.
He singled out what he called “one particularly horrific attack”, the deliberate targeting and complete destruction of a girls’ school in Minab, in which more than 168 students were killed. “These are not collateral damages; they are war crimes,” he asserted.
Regional tensions have escalated since the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28. Tehran retaliated with strikes targeting Israel as well as US allies in the Gulf, along with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
A ceasefire took effect on April 8 through Pakistani mediation, but talks in Islamabad failed to produce a lasting agreement. Trump later extended the truce indefinitely while maintaining a blockade on vessels travelling to or from Iranian ports through the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump on Wednesday said negotiations are in their “final stages” but insisted he is “in no hurry” to complete them.
“I just wonder whether or not they have the good of the people, because some of the things they’re doing, to me, mean they don’t have the good of the people, and they have to have the good of the people. There’s a lot of anger now in Iran, because people are living so badly,” he said.
Source: Express Tribune
