IranPress/Iran News: In a press release published on Wednesday, Gholamali Khoshroo the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN accused the US of trying to impose its unilateral decisions on the UNSC during its presidency of the chamber this month.
Donald Trump will preside over a UN Security Council meeting on Iran during the annual gathering of world leaders in New York, the US ambassador Nikki Haley said on Tuesday.
Haley announced that the UNSC session, scheduled for September 26, will address “violations of international law and general instability Iran sows throughout the entire Middle East region” PressTV reported.
She also noted that Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani could speak at the council meeting if he chooses to.
In response, the Iranian mission said Washington is seeking to misuse the UNSC’s decades-long agenda item entitled “the Middle East” and render the world body ineffective in bringing an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
“While the occupation of Palestine is the main cause of all conflicts in the Middle East, the US continues to be the main supporter of the occupying regime of Israel and its illegitimate expansionist policies and oppressive practices in blatantly violating the rules of international law and the basic principles of humanity,” it said.
“Now, a meeting of the Council to be held on 26 September 2018 is yet a further attempt by the US to divert attention away from Israeli brutalities and to remove the issue from the Council agenda; however, such actions are doomed to fail,” the statement added.
Trump’s first visit to U.N. headquartersImage on 19 SEP 2017.
Trump’s presence in UNSC would further “undermine the Council’s credibility”
The Iranian mission also warned that Trump’s “irresponsible” decision would further “undermine the Council’s credibility” and “erode the trust and confidence” in the world body.
19 SEPTEMBER 2017 – U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the United Nations for bloated bureaucracy and mismanagement on his first visit on Monday to U.N. headquarters
“In the absence of a consensually adopted program of work, the US abuses its positions both as a permanent seat-holder of the Council, and as its president, to impose this unilateral decision on this organ. This undoubtedly is a clear act of resorting to coercion, intimidation and bullying in international relations,” it added.
Earlier on Wednesday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif slammed Trump's "chutzpah" for calling a Security Council meeting to discuss Iran.
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In recent months, the US president has stepped up his hostile rhetoric against Iran.
He pulled his country out of the JCPOA in May despite objections from the other signatories and three months later re-imposed the anti-Iran sanctions which were lifted under the nuclear agreement.
Iran has lodged a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over Washington’s move to re-impose the sanctions.
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