Speaking at a session of the UN Security Council (UNSC) late on Friday under the agenda of “The Situation in the Middle East”, he emphasized that if Washington is truly committed to a diplomatic solution, it must immediately and unconditionally end its aggression.
Stating that Iran has never closed the doors to diplomacy, he stated, “Over the past two years, Iran has repeatedly engaged in negotiations in good faith. The United States, however, has consistently chosen aggression and threats over diplomacy, an approach that continues to this day.”
The senior Iranian diplomat stated, “These repeated experiences have fostered deep mistrust and raised serious doubts regarding the prospect of resuming negotiations, absent credible guarantees to prevent the recurrence of such unlawful actions. The path forward is clear. If Washington is genuinely committed to a diplomatic solution, it must immediately and unconditionally cease its aggression, provide credible guarantees of non-repetition, respect Iran’s sovereign rights, lift the naval blockade and all other unilateral, unlawful coercive measures, and demonstrate its true commitment to diplomacy through concrete action.”
Let me be clear and explicit: any resumption of an aggressive war by the United States and the Israeli regime will be met with an immediate and decisive response, without the slightest hesitation—a response that will target the source of the aggression, wherever it may be. As in the past, Iran will exercise its inherent right to legitimate self-defense in accordance with international law, he underlined.
Addressing the UN Security Council, Darzi stated that Iran will continue to take all necessary and appropriate measures to defend its people, security, vital interests, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, to maintain a credible and enduring deterrence, and to ensure that no further acts of aggression are repeated.
The UN Security Council must direct its demands toward the aggressor, not the victim. It must call upon the United States to cease all its unlawful actions and threats, to abide by its obligations under the UN Charter, and to fully respect international law, Darzi stressed.
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