Iran’s deputy foreign minister blasts US-proposed UN resolution on Strait of Hormuz

Iran has sharply condemned Washington’s latest attempt to push a draft resolution through the UN Security Council on the Strait of Hormuz, describing it as a blatant effort to distort facts and shield the real aggressors.

In a statement posted on X on Monday night, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi stated that the United States, together with some of its regional allies, is once again trying to “shift the terms of the issue,” turning the consequences of military aggression and an illegal siege into an indictment against Iran, the very country that has been the victim of threats, pressure and direct attacks.

“‘Freedom of navigation’ is a respected legal principle, but it cannot be interpreted selectively, politically, and detached from the United Nations Charter,” he wrote.

The senior Iranian diplomat stressed that any genuine initiative on maritime security in the region cannot possibly ignore the repeated resort to force, the imposition of a naval blockade, ongoing threats, and the direct role played by the United States and the Israeli regime in creating the current crisis, while pretending to act with neutrality or legal credibility.

Gharibabadi made it clear that the core problem is not the passage of ships “in a vacuum.” Rather, he said, certain governments are attempting to reframe the results of their own illegal actions in the language of so-called “international order.”

“Such an approach contributes neither to de-escalation, nor to maritime security, nor to the credibility of multilateral mechanisms,” he warned.

The official concluded that any text which seeks to portray the situation in the Strait of Hormuz without explicitly referencing aggression, siege, threats of force, and Iran’s legitimate right to defend its security and vital national interests “will be flawed, biased, political, and doomed to failure from the outset.”

Gharibabadi’s remarks come after Washington held closed-door talks with certain Persian Gulf states last week to promote its draft resolution.

The US text demands that Iran immediately halt what it calls “attacks” in the Strait of Hormuz and threatens Tehran with new sanctions and even the possible authorization of force if it refuses to comply.

Iran has repeatedly stressed that its actions in the strategic waterway are purely defensive responses to years of illegal US and Israeli provocations, crippling sanctions, and attempts to militarize the Persian Gulf.

Iranian officials maintain that the real threat to freedom of navigation stems from Washington’s aggressive military presence and its support for the Israeli regime’s destabilizing policies in the region.

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