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Tensions Run High as UN Security Council Meets over Israel and Iran
- The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting in New York City on June 13, 2025, to discuss Israeli military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
- The strikes targeted sites including the Natanz enrichment plant overnight from Thursday to Friday amid planned US-Iran talks in Oman scheduled for the weekend.
- The attacks reportedly caused significant damage and civilian casualties, with Iranian IRGC head Hossein Salami and several nuclear scientists killed, while Iran launched ballistic missiles into Israel.
- IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi condemned targeting nuclear sites, confirmed destruction of Natanz’s above-ground pilot plant, and called for facts to prevail over rhetoric to prevent escalation.
- UN officials urged restraint and diplomatic dialogue to avoid wider regional conflict as repercussions reverberate, with Iran reportedly ceasing participation in some engagements following the attacks.
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At an emergency meeting, the United Nations Security Council in New York discussed the situation in the Middle East.
UN Security Council meets in emergency session over Israel-Iran conflict
Israel's strikes on Iranian nuclear and military facilities mark a dangerous new escalation in the Middle East, a UN official told the Security Council during an emergency session convened on Friday.
Israel and Iran transferred their attacks to the UN headquarters in New York this Friday, where an urgent meeting of the Security Council was held to discuss the Israeli attack on the military leaders and nuclear facilities of the Tehran government. In a tense session, the Iranian representative to the UN, Saeid Iravani, accused Israel of "crossing all the red lines," of "state terrorism," of perpetrating a "direct attack on the international or…
Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Organization (UN), Amir Saeid Iravani, denounced this Friday at an emergency meeting in the Security Council of the United States, that the United States (US) is “direct competition” from Israel’s attacks on his country. READ ALSO: Urgent Security Council meeting: Condemn Israeli attacks on Iran The senior diplomat said that the US government admitted “without shame” its responsibility by sup…
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