At a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran, the United States said all options regarding Iran remain on the table, Iran warned it would respond lawfully to any aggression, Russia urged Washington to return to rationality, and the United Nations called on all parties to exercise restraint.
The Security Council session on Iran was held Thursday at the request of the United States.
According to Reuters, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told the Council that Washington stands with the Iranian people and that President Donald Trump has “made it explicitly clear that all options are on the table to stop the killing.”
Trump has previously threatened several times to support protesters in Iran. However, on Thursday he said he had been informed that the “killing” had declined and that, in his view, there are currently no plans for mass executions.
Waltz rejected Iran’s claims that the protests represent “a foreign conspiracy aimed at paving the way for military action.”
Iran’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Gholam-Hossein Darzi, said Tehran is not seeking to escalate tensions or confrontation. He accused Waltz of attempting to conceal his country’s “direct involvement in pushing unrest in Iran toward violence” through “lies, distortion of facts, and a deliberate disinformation campaign.”
Addressing the Security Council, Darzi said: “Nevertheless, any act of aggression—whether direct or indirect—will be met with a firm, proportionate, and lawful response. This is not a threat; it is a statement of legal reality.”
Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, accused the United States of convening the Security Council to “justify blatant aggression and interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign country,” and of threatening to “resolve the Iran issue in its preferred way” through military action aimed at changing the government.
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