Rouhani said discussions are underway at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to pass a resolution to lift all sanctions amid coronavirus crisis.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Ambassador of Iran to the UN, Majid Takht-Ravanchi on Thursday urged the UNSC to adopt a more explicit stance in dealing with US offenses. “We expect the UN Organization to be more active and explicit in dealing with US offenses in lack of issuance of visa for Foreign Minister of Iran […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has argued that Iran’s missile tests are not banned under the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231. During a presser in the northwestern city of Tabriz on Saturday, Mousavi criticized some Western countries’ position on Iran’s missile tests, Tasnim reported. He said the 2015 Iran nuclear […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations called for a reform of the UNSC, which he said is gripped by a legitimacy and credibility crisis. Addressing a Monday meeting of the UN General Assembly, entitled “Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters”, […]

Iran censured the UN Security Council’s inaction in the face of Israel’s aggressive policies against Palestinians, saying the body’s continuous failure to implement dozens of resolutions passed against the occupying regime could have “more devastating effects than war.” Speaking during a UNSC meeting on the Middle East on Monday, Iranian Deputy Ambassador to the UN […]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gholam Ali Khoshroo slammed the US government’s withdrawal from multilateral and international agreements and its move to penalize the UN members abiding by a Security Council resolution that endorses the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Addressing a meeting of the Sixth Committee (Legal) of the 73th Session […]

The Iranian foreign minister has posted a tweet condemning Donald Trump administration’s attempt to divert the attention of UN Security Council from Palestine to Iran. Referring to US abuses of the provisional presidency of the United Nations Security Council, the Foreign Minister of Iran Zarif has condemned US Trump administration to divert the attention of […]

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov affirmed that the tripartite aggression on Syria violated international law and obstructed efforts to implement the UN Security Council resolutions on Syria. In a joint press conference with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides in Moscow, Lavrov said that efforts to implement the UNSC resolutions on Syria have seriously stumbled as […]

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi says that how US, UK, and France tried to pass a resolution on Yemen showed how they are evading responsibility and misguiding the public opinion. “Unfortunately, the kind of behavior and the stances of the proposers of the failed resolution is a kind of evading the responsibility and misguiding […]

Mohammad Javad Zarif has reacted to US failed attempt to condemn Iran at latest UNSC meeting on Yemen, saying US, UK attempted to cover up complicity in Saudi and Emarati war crimes. There was a UN Security Council meeting on Monday to decide to extend the arms embargo on Yemen, which ended in a diplomatic […]