Iran’s Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeed Iravani has blamed the US for destroying the negotiations.
Iran requested the U.N. Security Council meeting, calling on the 15-member body “to address this blatant and unlawful act of aggression” by the United States on Iran nuclear sites.
Speaking at the meeting, Iravani said that Iran is defending itself while the United States is supporting terrorism in the region.
He further stressed that the US claims against Iran are not true and are not legal, but rather political. The US action in assassinating the martyr Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iran’s IRGC Quds Force, was a terrorist act and he, who was an official force of the Islamic Republic, was assassinated.
The US attacks were not without reason, but were carried out due to the actions and decisions of Europe, Britain, France and Germany, as well as the biased behavior of the IAEA Director General. While Iran was preparing for another round of diplomatic talks, the Zionist regime engaged in aggression against Iran before another round of negotiations began, Iravani underlined.
“Our Foreign Minister was negotiating and talking with the European Troika when this American action destroyed the negotiations. How can Iran return to the negotiating table when it has not left it?”