The U.S. and Israel clashed with Iran within the U.N. Safety Council as Secretary Basic Antonio Guterres warned that army motion within the Center East dangers igniting uncontrollable “chain of occasions” on the earth’s most risky area.
“We’re witnessing a grave menace to worldwide peace and safety. Navy motion carries the danger of igniting a series of occasions that nobody can management in essentially the most risky area of the world,” Mr. Guterres instructed the emergency assembly of the U.N. Safety Council on Saturday (February 28, 2026).
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The highly effective 15-nation U.N. physique met simply hours after the U.S. and Israel launched army strikes in opposition to Iran and the following assaults by Tehran.
Mr. Guterres condemned the large army strikes by the U.S. and Israel in opposition to Iran in addition to assaults by Tehran “violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity” of Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
“In Tehran, giant explosions had been reported within the district that features the presidential palace and the compound of the Supreme Chief. A number of high-ranking officers have reportedly been killed, together with — based on Israeli sources — Iran’s Supreme Chief, Ali Khamenei, that I’m not ready to substantiate,” Guterres mentioned.
As the us assembly was underway within the U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S. President Donald Trump, presently in his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida, introduced the Ayatollah’s demise in a submit on Fact Social.
“Khamenei, one of the evil individuals in Historical past, is useless. This isn’t solely Justice for the individuals of Iran, however for all Nice Individuals, and people individuals from many Nations all through the World, which were killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS,” Mr*. Trump mentioned.
Mr. Trump warned that the “heavy and pinpoint bombing” will proceed, “uninterrupted all through the week or, so long as crucial to realize our goal of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!” Mr. Guterres asserted that the area and the world want a means out now and referred to as for de-escalation and instant cessation of hostilities.
“The choice is a possible wider battle with grave penalties for civilians and regional stability,” he mentioned.
Within the U.N. assembly, the U.S. and Israel clashed with Iran on the Safety Council horse-shoe desk, with Washington’s envoy telling the worldwide neighborhood that “historical past has taught us that the price of inaction is much higher than the burden of decisive motion. And our President, President Trump, has taken that decisive motion at this time.
“…it is a second in historical past that requires ethical readability, and President Trump has met the second. Probably the most basic responsibility of any sovereign authorities is the safety of its individuals,” Ambassador Mike Waltz, U.S. Consultant to the United Nations, mentioned.
“Iran’s continued pursuit of superior missile capabilities, coupled with its refusal to desert nuclear ambitions regardless of diplomatic alternatives, presents a grave and mounting hazard.” “The worldwide neighborhood has lengthy affirmed a easy and crucial precept: Iran can not have a nuclear weapon. That precept isn’t a matter of politics; it’s a matter of world safety. And to that finish, the US is taking lawful actions,” Mr. Waltz mentioned, including that “the place the UN lacks ethical readability, the US of America will keep it.”
Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon instructed the Council that his nation acted with the US to “confront and cease an existential menace earlier than it grew to become irreversible.” The operation targets nuclear infrastructure, ballistic missile websites, the equipment of repression that fuels terror throughout our area. We didn’t act of impulse. We didn’t act of aggression. We acted out of necessity, as a result of the Iranian regime left no cheap different. This joint effort will proceed for so long as the menace stays,” Danon mentioned.
Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. Amir Saeid Iravani mentioned the U.S. and Israel “initiated an unprovoked and premeditated aggression” in opposition to his nation for the second time within the current months.
He termed “the aggression and atrocious crime of the US regime and the Israeli regime and the deliberate and chronic focusing on of civilian infrastructure” as “not solely an act of aggression, it’s a struggle crime and against the law in opposition to humanity.” Iravani mentioned the assault in opposition to a college in Minab, a metropolis within the Hormozgan province of southern Iran killed greater than 100 youngsters.
He mentioned the Safety Council should instantly decide that the US and Israel have dedicated an act of aggression, and demand the instant cessation of its “illegal use of drive.”
“Israel and the US have attacked Iran. They’ve violated worldwide legislation and the Constitution of the United Nations. They should be held accountable. As long as this aggression continues, Iran will proceed to train its inherent proper of self-defense firmly, proportionately and with out hesitation, till the aggression ends. The Safety Council should act now and cease this act of aggression instantly. Silence is complicity on this crime,” the Iranian envoy mentioned.
Mr. Iravani and Mr. Waltz additionally engaged in a uncommon conflict of phrases, with the Iranian envoy telling Mr. Waltz to be “well mannered” to which the American diplomat mentioned “Frankly, I am not going to dignify this with one other response, particularly as this consultant sits right here on this physique, representing a regime that has killed tens of 1000’s of its personal individuals and imprisoned many extra merely for wanting freedom out of your tyranny.”
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