Iran's Pezeshkian slams UN failure to 'extinguish' regional crisis

Kazan, Russia — 

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian connected Thursday condemned the 15-nation U.N. Security Council for failing to tackle the Middle East conflict.

"The occurrence of warfare is inactive raging successful the Palestinian Gaza Strip and Lebanese cities," Pezeshkian told leaders from emerging economies astatine the BRICS acme successful Russia.

"And planetary institutions ... topped by the United Nations Security Council — who are drivers of planetary bid and information — deficiency the indispensable ratio to extinguish the occurrence of this crisis."

Pezeshkian condemned Israel for violating "the reddish lines" of antithetic states and "producing a caller question of unit and terror."

Since the commencement of the warfare successful Gaza, the Islamic republic has criticized the U.N. assemblage for being inactive and ineffective successful ending struggle successful the Middle East.

Iran is engaged successful an aggravated diplomatic run to found cease-fires successful some Gaza and Lebanon.

The efforts are besides aimed astatine preventing the struggle from expanding crossed the portion aft Israel's menace to retaliate to an onslaught by Iran connected October 1.

Tehran said the onslaught was successful effect to Israeli strikes successful Lebanon, which killed an Iranian wide and the caput of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, precocious September.

Iran supports Hezbollah and the Palestinian question Hamas, whose militant groups are warring Israel.

'Defeating its purpose'

For his part, Iran's overseas ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, turned to societal media to knock the U.N. for turning "into a frustratingly dysfunctional platform."

He said the U.N. was "sadly defeating its purpose" due to the fact that the United States' "unconditional enactment for [the] occupying regime" — Israel — "has truthful emboldened the authorities arsenic to grow its aggressions and atrocities crossed the region," helium posted connected societal media level X.

The U.S. is 1 of the 5 imperishable Security Council members with powers to artifact its decisions.

Earlier successful October, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the United States of obstructing the Security Council implicit the wars successful Gaza and Lebanon.

"[The] inaction of the U.N. Security Council owed to the obstruction of the United States [is] a disaster," helium said.

Iran does not admit the authorities of Israel and has made enactment for Palestinian origin 1 of the pillars of its overseas argumentation since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

The Security Council is composed of 5 imperishable members with veto powers - China, France, Russia, the U.K. and the U.S. — and 10 nonpermanent members elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms.

The existent nonpermanent members are Algeria, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and Switzerland.