Iran tells UN it will not submit to “lawless aggression"

Iran told the United Nations on March 16 that it would not yield to what it described as “lawless aggression,” warning that its population faces a serious threat from ongoing US and Israeli military actions.

Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, where member states were debating Iran’s domestic human rights record following a deadly crackdown on protesters in recent months, Tehran urged the international community to shift its focus to the broader conflict in the Middle East, Caliber.Az reports via foreign media. 

“The most urgent and fundamental human rights issue concerning Iran is the imminent threat to the lives of 90 million people whose lives are in immediate and grave danger under the shadow of reckless military aggression,” said Ali Bahreini, Iran's ambassador to the UN in Geneva.

“An aggression that is carried out by some of the most lawless and unscrupulous actors on the international stage.”

Bahreini argued that continued military pressure on Iran risked setting a dangerous international precedent.

“If such reckless militarism” was met with indifference, he said, “Iran will most certainly not be the last country to suffer such treatment.”

By Sabina Mammadli