Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called on Beijing and Moscow to prevent Washington from continuing to abuse the United Nations Security Council. He made the comment during a phone conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi according to state-owned IRNA news agency.
“Iran's serious expectation from the member states of the Security Council, especially China and Russia, is to prevent the United States from continuing to abuse the Security Council by adopting a firm stance in condemning the aggression of the United States and the Zionist regime,” IRNA quoted him saying.
On Monday, Araghchi spoke to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov over the phone, urging the UN Security Council member states “to not allow the U.S. to misuse the world body and the council for its ends,” according to a Foreign Ministry statement.
In another development, Tehran’s top diplomat on Wednesday lauded German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier's comments when he criticised the war calling it a "violation of international law”.
In a social media post on X, Araghchi said, "International law is dead in practice - driven by Western double standards on Gaza vs Ukraine and silence on Israel-U.S. aggression on Iran.”
"Still, credit to President Steinmeier for condemning the violations against Iranians. Those who value the rule of law should also speak up,” Araghchi added.
During a speech at the German Foreign Ministry on Tuesday (24 March), Steinmeier said, “In my opinion, this war is a violation of international law.”
“There is little doubt that the justification of an imminent attack on the U.S. is invalid - a view also shared by many in the American bureaucracy," Steinmeier added.
Meanwhile, President Masoud Pezeshkian appointed Mohammad-Bagher Zolghadr as Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC).
The appointment was announced on Tuesday by Mehdi Tabatabaei, Deputy for Communications at the President's Office, in a post on X.
Zolghadr previously served as Secretary of influential Expediency Discernment Council and Chief of the Joint Staff of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and was appointed as Iran’s top security official after its former secretary Ali Larijani was killed last week by the Israel-U.S. air strikes.
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