Rouhani: US shamed itself by targeting Iran at UNSC

From Pae e 1

In late December, Iran witnessed peaceful protests against recent price hikes and the overall economic condition of the country. However, limited numbers of violent individuals, some of them armed, sought to turn the peaceful protests into street riots.

Some foreign media outlets, meanwhile, tried to depict the entire situation as an uprising targeting Iran’s Islamic establishment.

Mindful of how the violent individuals sought to hijack the peaceful rallies, however, the original protesters soon heeded calls by authorities to leave the streets, paving the way for law enforcement officials to deal with the vandals and armed elements.

On Friday, the council gave into a US push for a meeting on the events inside Iran. The session, though, did not go as planned as the council’s veto wielders and Washington’s own allies used the debate to criticize the White House for involving the body in Iran’s domestic affairs.

At the meeting, several UNSC members defended Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world countries, including the US, and warned Washington against attempts to exploit the recent developments inside Iran to undermine the accord.