New York-Sana
Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi called on the UN Security Council to confront the adventures of the Zionist entity in the region.
"Today, Israel and its protectors are providing false information about the recent events in the region's waters to persuade the UN Security Council to condemn Iran, but they failed," Takht Ravanchi wrote on the social networking site Twitter, noting that the Security Council must confront the adventures of the Zionist entity in the region. And rejects the methods of deception and falsification carried out by it.
In a statement, in response to Israeli threats against Iran following the closed meeting of the UN Security Council on the incident of the Mercer Street ship in the Gulf waters, Zahra Ershadi, the ambassador and assistant of the Iranian permanent diplomatic mission to the United Nations, warned against any adventure and miscalculation, stressing that Iran will never hesitate. To defend itself and ensure its national interests.
She said, “The Zionist entity is itself the source of threat, instability and insecurity in the region for more than 7 decades,” adding, “The goal of the Israeli entity by making noise about the Mercer Street incident is to cover up its terrorist acts against commercial shipping, as it attacked In less than two years, more than 10 merchant ships are in the seas of the region.
Irshidi indicated that these terrorist and illegal acts of the Zionist entity seriously threaten regional and international peace and security, violate the freedom of maritime navigation and endanger energy security, noting that this entity continues its systematic and continuous attacks against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries in the region.
Irshaidi stressed that the Israeli occupation entity is the only one in the region that possesses nuclear weapons and refuses to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty despite international demands for it.