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The situation in the Middle East - Security Council, 10112th meeting
Military strikes on Iran by Israel and the United States, and Iran’s counter attacks on United States army bases in Gulf countries, threatened to ignite a wider war in the Middle East, delegates told an emergency meeting of the Security Council today, as the parties traded claims of unjustified action.
The United States intends to ensure that Iran “never ever can threaten the world with a nuclear weapon”, the former’s delegate said, accusing Iran of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump.
In turn, Iran’s delegate countered that the attacks on his country - including one on a school that killed more than 85 children - are a war crime. Iran will exercise its right of self-defence, he said, and regards all bases, facilities and assets of the hostile forces in the region as “legitimate military objectives”.
Israel’s delegate meanwhile accused Tehran of brutally murdering its own citizens, crushing dissent, supporting armed proxies across the region and openly declaring its intention to wipe his country off the map. Now, he said, it is facing the consequences of those actions.