Iran Urges UN Security Council Not to Remain Silent on US Threats and War Crimes

Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Amir-Saeid Iravani, has urged the United Nations Security Council to break its silence over what he described as the threats and war crimes carried out by the United States against Iran and by Israel during their military operations. He made the appeal yesterday at the publicly held debate on ‘Protection of Civilians’ before the Security Council. He lamented the Security Council’s failure to discharge its duty to address the war crimes conducted by the United States and Israel during their military aggression against Iran. He also condemned the US-Israel alliance for deliberately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, including an elementary school in Minab, which killed more than 168 students and staff. “The Security Council must not remain silent or indifferent to the repeated and daily threats issued by the President of the United States against Iran, including explicit threats to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age, to destroy the country’s energy, economic, and industrial infrastructure, to target Iranian scientists and senior officials, and even rhetoric implying the destruction of Iran’s civilisation,” the ambassador said, as reported by Iran’s Press TV on Friday, 22 May 2026. “Normalisation of violent threats, acts of aggression, and incitement by permanent members of the Security Council creates a dangerous precedent.” Iravani said that the United States and Israel, and those who assist and facilitate their aggressive actions, must bear full legal and international responsibility for their crimes against the Iranian nation. “No country should hide behind political protection while violating the UN Charter and targeting civilians with impunity,” he said. The Iranian ambassador to the UN also urged the international community to recommit to the core principles of the UN Charter, including equality of state sovereignty, non-use of force, peaceful settlement of disputes, and full respect for the territorial integrity and political independence of states.