Iran slams Israel's 'shameful arrogance' at UN, calls for global action
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei strongly condemns a “shameful exhibition of arrogant defiance” and the “impunity” granted to Israel, following a heated confrontation at a United Nations meeting involving the regime’s ambassador and a senior UN official.
In a strongly worded post on X on Saturday, Baghaei reacted to a heated altercation between Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon and the UN special representative for children and armed conflict, Vanessa Frazier, during a Friday UN meeting in New York marking the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict.
Frazier attempted to interject while Danon was delivering remarks to a meeting, prompting him to yell, “You will be quiet because I am speaking now.”
In his X post, Baghaei called the outburst a “shameful exhibition of arrogant defiance against reason, law, morality, and justice”, which is “yet another inevitable result of the absolute impunity bestowed upon an apartheid terrorist regime by its enablers”.
He added that the Israeli regime presses ahead with its genocidal war against the people of Palestine and across the region, paying no heed to “all civilized norms".
The Iranian spokesperson further warned that the international community should no longer remain silent in the face of such Israeli actions.
"It is long past time for the world to rise and confront this grave, unprecedented threat to peace and humanity," Baghaei emphasized.
Iran has consistently maintained that the international community must hold Israel accountable for its criminal acts, saying that Western support, particularly from the United States, has enabled systematic violations of international law.
The United Nations has added Israeli entities to its blacklist of offenders responsible for sexual violence in conflict zones after years of reports regarding torture, degrading treatment, and sexual violence inside Israeli prisons and military detention centers.
Human rights organizations, investigative reports, and testimonies from detainees have for months documented a sharp rise in reports of sexual abuse and humiliation by Israeli soldiers, settlers, and prison personnel since the start of Israel’s devastating war on Gaza in October 2023.
The results of an investigation by The New York Times, published on May 11, also detailed allegations that Israeli soldiers, settlers, and prison guards subjected Palestinian detainees to rape, sexual abuse of children, physical torture, degrading treatment, and other forms of mistreatment.
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