Iranian ambassador has ‘one word only’ in warning to US
The US ambassador would not 'dignify it with a response' at the emergency meeting
Iran’s ambassador told an emergency United Nations meeting that they have ‘one word only’ for the United States.
This came after a deadly series of attacks on the Middle Eastern country over the weekend.
The US and Israel launched strikes against Iran in the early hours of Saturday (28 February) morning, killing its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. And as Iran takes action back, Donald Trump has suggested the conflict could escalate further.
America had planned for it to last for roughly four or five weeks, with plans to destroy the country’s missile capabilities, its navy and any hope of it obtaining nuclear weapons.
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And at the UN meeting in New York City on Saturday, Iranian representative Amir Saeid Iravani gave a warning to the US.
“I have one word only,” the ambassador said. “I advise to the representative of the United States to be polite."
Iravani added: “It will be better for yourself and the country you represented, thank you."
And the US ambassador, Mike Walz replied: “Frankly, I'm not going to dignify this with another response.”
He went on to add: "Especially, as this representative sits here, in this body, representing a regime that has killed tens of thousands of its own people and imprisoned many more simply for wanting freedom from your tyranny."
The UN meeting saw Iravani describing the attacks on Iran as against international law and international legal order under the United Nations Charter.
He said: “This morning, the United States regime - jointly and in coordination with the Israeli regime - initiated an unprovoked and premeditated aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran for the second time in recent months.
“This is not only an act of aggression; it is a war crime and a crime against humanity.
“The invocation to ‘pre-emptive attack’, claims of imminent threat, or other unsubstantiated political claims, are unfounded legally, morally and politically.”
Trump has suggested the conflict could escalate further, having told CNN that a ‘big’ wave of airstrikes on Iran is yet to come.
But he also shared little detail about what his country’s exit plan might be.
In a post on Truth Social earlier today, Trump suggested the US had a ‘virtually unlimited’ supply of ‘medium and upper medium -grade’ munitions which could support the conflict ‘forever’.
The president wrote: “The United States Munitions Stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better – as was stated to me today, we have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons.
“Wars can be fought ‘forever,’ and very successfully, using just these supplies (which are better than other countries finest arms!)”
Topics: Iran, Donald Trump, World News
Jess Battison