Iran’s ambassador to the UN, Amir-Saeid Iravani, says Washington and its supporters are responsible for the insecurity in the Strait of Hormuz and the disruption to regional shipping, according to Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB.
– Speaking to the UN Security Council, Iravani said the US naval blockade of Iran violates the UN Charter and threatens civilians’ access to food, medicine, fuel and other essential goods. He added that the measures amount to “collective punishment” against the Iranian people.
– The US has said its blockade is effective and that no Iranian ship has been able to cross the strait.
Iran accuses UN human rights mechanism of ‘whitewashing’ US-Israeli attacks
– Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei accuses the UN’s human rights mechanism on Iran of attempting to “whitewash aggression, atrocities, and unilateral coercive measures”.
– In a post on X, Baghaei described the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur Mai Sato as a “politically motivated” measure “imposed on the Human Rights Council by the UK,” adding that exploiting the role to blame Tehran for US and Israeli crimes was “deeply misleading and profoundly disingenuous”.
– The spokesman’s comments followed Sato’s report to the UN General Assembly, which noted that while US and Israeli military actions compounded the suffering of Iranians, authorities in Tehran used the regional conflict to intensify their crackdown on dissent through arrests and executions.
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