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DATELINE: 22 JUNE 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
22 JUNE 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council, IAEA Director-General Mariano Grossi on screen
3. Med shot, photographer
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities by the United States marks a perilous turn in a region that is already reeling. From the outset of the crisis, I have repeatedly condemned any military escalation in the Middle East. The people of the region cannot endure another cycle of destruction. And yet, we now risk descending into a rathole of retaliation after retaliation.”
5. Wide shot, Guterres at the Council dais
6. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We face a stark choice. One path leads to wider war, deeper human suffering, and serious damage to the international order. The other leads to de-escalation, diplomacy and dialogue. We know which path is right. I urge this Council – and all Member States – to act with reason, restraint, and urgency.”
7. Wide shot, Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča addressing Council
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General, Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“The conflict risks engulfing the region in further instability and volatility. Some non-state armed groups aligned with Iran warned against US involvement. The Houthis in Yemen and some armed groups in Iraq vowed to attack if the US intervened in the conflict between Israel and Iran. Iran’s parliament unanimously expressed support for measures to close the Strait of Hormuz – a vital maritime route for global energy transit.”
9. Wide shot, Council, Grossi on screen
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“The dramatic events in Iran have become even more serious with last night’s bombardments and the potential widening of the conflict. We have a window of opportunity to return to dialogue and diplomacy. If that window closes, violence and destruction could reach unthinkable levels and the global non-proliferation regime as we know it could crumble and fall.”
11. Med shot, Iranian Ambassador Amir-Saeid Iravani
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mariano Grossi, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“Any agreement, any arrangement will have as a pre-requisite the establishment of the facts on the ground. This can be done only through IAEA inspections. IAEA inspectors are in Iran, and they must do their job. This will require a cessation of hostilities so that Iran can let the teams into the sites under the necessary safety and security conditions.”
13. Wide shot, Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya addressing Council
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“Russia condemns in the most decisive terms the irresponsible, dangerous, and provocative actions committed by the USA against the Islamic Republic of Iran, a sovereign Member State of the United Nations.”
15. Wide shot, delegates
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“Washington yet again demonstrated its complete contempt for the position of the international community. Washington reasserted that to further the interests of its Israeli ally, it's prepared not only to turn a blind eye to the killings of tens of thousands of Palestinian women, children and older persons, but also to gamble with the safety and well-being of humanity as a whole”
17. Wide shot, US Ambassador Dorothy Shea addressing Council
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Dorothy Shea, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“The time finally came for the United States, in the defence of its ally and in the defence of our own citizens and interest, to act decisively. The Iranian regime cannot have a nuclear weapon. Let us be clear: Iran should not escalate. As President Trump said, any Iranian attack—direct or indirect—against Americans or American bases will be met with devastating retaliation.”
19. Wide shot, Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Amir-Saeid Iravani, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Iran:
“We appreciate all those Members who have chosen to stand on the right side of history, and thus strongly condemned the act of aggression of the United States and the Israeli regime against my country.”
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Amir-Saeid Iravani, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Iran:
“America has once again chosen to sacrifice its own security merely to safeguard Netanyahu. Once again, the world has witnessed the blatant corruption of the US political system and its leaders. As an independent, peace seeking nation, the Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly warned the warmongering US regime to refrain from stumbling into this quagmire. Even now, Iran deserves its full and legitimate right under international law to defend itself against this blatant US aggression and its Israeli proxy.”
22. Med shot, Shea
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Amir-Saeid Iravani, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Iran:
“The United States, a Permanent Member of this Council, the depository of the NPT and the only state that has ever used nuclear weapons, monitoring millions in two cities has once again resorted to illegal force, waged a war against my country under the fabricated and absurd pretext of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.”
24. Wide shot, Council
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“This is what the last line of defence looks like, when every other line has failed. Make no mistake, the cost of inaction would have been catastrophic. A nuclear Iran would have been a death sentence, just as much for you, as it would have been for us.”
26. Med shot, US and UK Ambassadors
27. Wide shot, Council
28. Wide shot, Danon walks up to stakeout microphone
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“In the last 24 hours, history changed the United States of America, strike Iran nuclear sites at Fordo, Natanz and Esfahan. It was a necessary act, and the brave decision to remove the greatest threat to global security. The world and the Security Council should clearly and without hesitation say, thank you. Thank you to the United States and President Trump for acting when others would not.”
30. Wide shot, Danon at the stakeout microphone
31. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“It was very disappointing because the secretary general failed to, in his remarks, to mention the threat of a nuclear Iran. He knows better. He knows that diplomacy have failed for the last decades and should thank the US for bringing stability and bringing peace through power.”
30. Pan right, Danon walks away
Secretary-General António Guterres today (22 Jun) said, “the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities by the United States marks a perilous turn in a region that is already reeling,” and urged Council Members “to act with reason, restraint, and urgency.”
Addressing an emergency meeting of the Security Council for the second time in last three days, Guterres said, “from the outset of the crisis, I have repeatedly condemned any military escalation in the Middle East. The people of the region cannot endure another cycle of destruction. And yet, we now risk descending into a rathole of retaliation after retaliation.”
He said, “we face a stark choice. One path leads to wider war, deeper human suffering, and serious damage to the international order. The other leads to de-escalation, diplomacy and dialogue. We know which path is right.
Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča told the Council that the conflict “risks engulfing the region in further instability and volatility,” and pointed out that “some non-state armed groups aligned with Iran warned against US involvement.”
Jenča said, “the Houthis in Yemen and some armed groups in Iraq vowed to attack if the US intervened in the conflict between Israel and Iran,” and stressed that “Iran’s parliament unanimously expressed support for measures to close the Strait of Hormuz – a vital maritime route for global energy transit.”
IAEA Director-General Mariano Grossi briefing the Council via video teleconference, said, “the dramatic events in Iran have become even more serious with last night’s bombardments and the potential widening of the conflict,” adding that “we have a window of opportunity to return to dialogue and diplomacy. If that window closes, violence and destruction could reach unthinkable levels and the global non-proliferation regime as we know it could crumble and fall.”
Grossi said, “any agreement, any arrangement will have as a pre-requisite the establishment of the facts on the ground. This can be done only through IAEA inspections. IAEA inspectors are in Iran, and they must do their job. This will require a cessation of hostilities so that Iran can let the teams into the sites under the necessary safety and security conditions.”
Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya, in his address to the Council condemned “in the most decisive terms the irresponsible, dangerous, and provocative actions committed by the USA against the Islamic Republic of Iran, a sovereign Member State of the United Nations.”
Nebenzya said, “Washington yet again demonstrated its complete contempt for the position of the international community,” and “reasserted that to further the interests of its Israeli ally, it's prepared not only to turn a blind eye to the killings of tens of thousands of Palestinian women, children and older persons, but also to gamble with the safety and well-being of humanity as a whole”
US Ambassador Dorothy Shea, for her part said, “the time finally came for the United States, in the defence of its ally and in the defence of our own citizens and interest, to act decisively. The Iranian regime cannot have a nuclear weapon.”
Shea warned that “Iran should not escalate,” and quoted US President Donald Trump saying that “any Iranian attack—direct or indirect—against Americans or American bases will be met with devastating retaliation.”
Iranian Ambassador Amir-Saeid Iravani thanked “all those Members who have chosen to stand on the right side of history, and thus strongly condemned the act of aggression of the United States and the Israeli regime against my country.”
Iravani said, “America has once again chosen to sacrifice its own security merely to safeguard Netanyahu. Once again, the world has witnessed the blatant corruption of the US political system and its leaders. As an independent, peace seeking nation, the Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly warned the warmongering US regime to refrain from stumbling into this quagmire.”
He said, “Iran deserves its full and legitimate right under international law to defend itself against this blatant US aggression and its Israeli proxy.”
The United States, Iravani continued, “as a Permanent Member of this Council, the depository of the NPT and the only state that has ever used nuclear weapons, monitoring millions in two cities has once again resorted to illegal force, waged a war against my country under the fabricated and absurd pretext of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.”
Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon, said, “this is what the last line of defence looks like, when every other line has failed. Make no mistake, the cost of inaction would have been catastrophic. A nuclear Iran would have been a death sentence, just as much for you, as it would have been for us.”
Talking to reporters outside the Council before the meeting, Danon said, “in the last 24 hours, history changed the United States of America, strike Iran nuclear sites at Fordo, Natanz and Esfahan. It was a necessary act, and the brave decision to remove the greatest threat to global security. The world and the Security Council should clearly and without hesitation say, thank you. Thank you to the United States and President Trump for acting when others would not.”
Responding to a question, he said, “it was very disappointing because the secretary general failed to, in his remarks, to mention the threat of a nuclear Iran. He knows better. He knows that diplomacy have failed for the last decades and should thank the US for bringing stability and bringing peace through power.”
