Tehran, IRNA – Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has advised the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to take a fair position with regard to US-Israeli aggression against Iran.
“Dear Mr. Secretary General, Let’s call a spade a spade. This is not ‘the fighting’; this is an ‘unprovoked act of aggression’ launched by two nuclear armed regimes against Iran,” Baqaei wrote on his X account on Saturday.
“We WERE in ‘serious diplomatic negotiations’ while the U.S./Israel attacked Iran, for a second time during the past 9 months,” he added.
“You are concerned about ‘grave risk to the global economy’; what about the innocent civilians, including 175 little angels slaughtered in the City of Minab, and many more killed and maimed across Iran during the past 7 days of American/Israeli criminal acts?!,” he stated.
“The UN shall be forthright and shoulder its legal and moral responsibilities regarding this illegal war on Iran,” Baqaei noted.
Guterres had earlier said, “All the unlawful attacks in the Middle East and beyond are causing tremendous suffering and harm to civilians throughout the region – and pose a grave a risk to the global economy, particularly to the most vulnerable people.”
The United States and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran on Saturday morning by assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and top military commanders, despite indirect Tehran-Washington negotiations.
Within the framework of its legitimate response, the Iranian Armed Forces immediately initiated decisive missile and drone strikes against US bases in the region and the Israeli-occupied territories.
