{"id":302385,"date":"2026-02-21T06:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/302385\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T06:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:11:13","slug":"iran-sends-threatening-letter-to-un-vows-decisive-response-but-says-it-will-not-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/302385\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran sends threatening letter to UN, vows decisive response but says it will not star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran<\/a> sent a letter overnight Thursday to Friday to U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres<\/a> warning that it would \u201crespond decisively\u201d to any attack against it, saying that \u201cbases, facilities and assets of the hostile force will be legitimate targets.\u201d The Iranians criticized threats by U.S. President Donald Trump, arguing that they pose \u201ca real risk of attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the letter to Guterres, Iran said it \u201cwill not initiate any war,\u201d but stressed that the United States would bear \u201cfull and direct responsibility for all the unforeseen and uncontrollable consequences\u201d resulting from an attack against it \u2014 and from Iran\u2019s response.<\/p>\n

The Iranian threat came after The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Trump is considering launching an initial limited military strike on Iran to compel it to meet his demands for a nuclear agreement. According to the report, the move is intended to pressure Tehran into reaching a deal without resorting to a large-scale assault that could trigger a significant response. Officials familiar with the matter who spoke to the Journal said that if approved, the strike could take place within days and would target military or government sites.<\/p>\n

The report said that if Iran continues to refuse to meet Trump\u2019s terms for halting uranium enrichment, the United States will respond with a broader attack on regime facilities, possibly even with the aim of toppling it.<\/p>\n

The impasse in negotiations, which U.S. officials say is unlikely to be resolved, and the American military buildup near Iran have increased the likelihood of a strike. The Journal noted that in Iran there are already concerns over a deadline set by Trump after he said last year he would give Tehran two weeks to reach a nuclear deal \u2014 but days later B-2 bombers struck three nuclear sites in the country.<\/p>\n

Trump addressed the negotiations with Iran at the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace on Thursday<\/a>. He said the talks were \u201cgood,\u201d but emphasized that a \u201cmeaningful agreement\u201d must be reached. \u201cOver the years it has been proven that it is not easy to reach a meaningful agreement with Iran, and we must reach a meaningful agreement. Otherwise bad things will happen,\u201d he said. In what appeared to be an ultimatum to Iran, he added: \u201cWe may have to take it one step further, and we may not have to. Maybe we\u2019ll make a deal \u2014 you\u2019ll probably find out in the next 10 days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran sent a letter overnight Thursday to Friday to U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres warning that it would \u201crespond…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-302385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}