The UN Safety Council “should unequivocally condemn Iran’s aggressive actions and name for Iran and its companions and proxies to stop their assaults,” stated Ambassador Robert Wooden, an American consultant on the physique, on Sunday.
Wooden was referring not solely to Iran’s aerial assault on Israel Saturday night time, but additionally its help for Hezbollah and the Houthis— in violation, Wooden stated, of Safety Council Resolutions 1701, 2216, and 2722.
Wooden additionally condemned Iran’s switch of Shahed drones — “the identical drones it utilized in final night time’s assaults towards Israel”— to Russia, “at a time when such transfers had been in clear violation of Decision 2231,” in addition to its concentrating on of business ships within the Persian Gulf and surrounding waterways, together with its seizure of a Portuguese-flagged ship on April 12 close to the Strait of Hormuz.
“Iran additionally was, in a broad sense, complicit within the October 7 assault on Israel as a result of it has supplied vital funding and coaching for the army wing of Hamas,” Wooden added.
US to ‘discover further measures’ to carry Iran accountable at UN
In mild of those violations, Wooden stated, the USA will within the coming days “discover further measures to carry Iran accountable right here on the United Nations.”
“Our aim,” he concluded, “is to de-escalate, after which get again to the difficulty at hand – securing an finish to the battle in Gaza, by getting a ceasefire in Gaza by a hostage deal, in addition to securing humanitarian help to the Palestinians in want.”
