Iran on the Middle East - Media Stakeout | United Nations
“It is deeply shameful and hypocritical that on the very first day of its Presidency of the Security Council the United States convened a high level meeting on protecting children, technology and education in armed conflict under the agenda item Maintenance of International Peace and Security, while at the same time launching missiles strike against Iranian cities and bombing schools and killing children,” Iran's United Nations ambassador said.
Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, addressed correspondents at the UN stakeout in New York, condemning what he described as a second round of military strikes against his country. "On 28th February 2026, the United States, in full coordination with Israel, launched a second deliberate and unprovoked military attack against the Islamic Republic of Iran," he said. "This was a calculated act of aggression. Major cities and densely populated civilian areas were targeted. Hundreds of innocent civilians lost their lives. Many more were wounded."
Iravani said the strikes extended to the highest levels of Iran's leadership. "The United States and Israel deliberately targeted the Supreme Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran and many high military officials," he said, calling the targeting of a sitting head of state "an egregious breach of international law and a direct attack on sovereign equality" that he warned "endangers the entire international system."
The ambassador detailed what he said were attacks on civilian infrastructure, including schools, hospitals and residential buildings. He cited the destruction of a girls' school in Minab, a town in Iran's southern Hormozgan Province, on the first day of the strikes. "165 innocent schoolgirls were martyred," he said. "Their bodies were recovered from the rubble after hours of rescue efforts."
Calling on the international community to act, Iravani warned that inaction carried consequences beyond the current conflict. "Can a powerful state attack another sovereign member of the United Nations with impunity? If the answer is yes, then the Charter is meaningless," he said. "Double standard will destroy the credibility of this Council. Silence will embolden further lawlessness."
Iran, he said, was not seeking to widen the conflict. "Iran does not seek war. Iran does not seek escalation, but Iran will not surrender its sovereignty," Iravani said. "As long as aggression continues, Iran will defend itself decisively and without hesitation."
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