The 47-member council adopted by consensus a motion brought by Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, decrying Iran\u2019s \u201cunprovoked and deliberate\u201d attacks, calling on Tehran to immediately cease them and demanding full and swift reparations for victims.<\/p>\n
Kuwait\u2019s ambassador, Naser Abdullah H. M. Alhayen, told the Geneva-based council that Persian Gulf states were confronting \u201can existential threat to international and regional security\u201d and said Iran\u2019s actions were undermining international law and sovereignty.<\/p>\n
The United Arab Emirates\u2019 ambassador, Jamal Jama al Musharakh, said Iran was attempting to destabilize the international order through \u201creckless adventures of expansionism.\u201d<\/p>\n
The resolution came during an emergency session on the widening regional conflict, in which regional states, the European Union and ASEAN members condemned Iran\u2019s attacks in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk warned that the conflict could draw in countries around the world on an unprecedented scale and urged influential states to use all available means to help end the war.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cAttacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure must end. If they are deliberate, such attacks may constitute war crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iran defended its actions and said more than 1,500 civilians had been killed in US-Israeli strikes so far.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, said: \u201cWe fight on behalf of all of you against an enemy that, if not restrained today, will be beyond containment tomorrow,\u201d referring to Israel.<\/p>\n
Oman, one of the sponsors of the resolution and a previous mediator between Washington and Tehran, was among the few states to note that US-Israeli strikes had preceded Iran\u2019s retaliation.<\/p>\n
Ambassador Idris Abdul Rahman Al Khanjari said those strikes \u201cwere the spark that ignited the escalation currently affecting the region and the consequences are threatening states and their vital economic interests and their security and stability.\u201d<\/p>\n
The council\u2019s motion also asked the UN rights chief to monitor the situation. An independent rights group, the International Service for Human Rights, cautioned against \u201cselective outrage\u201d and called for scrutiny of abuses by all sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 47-member council adopted by consensus a motion brought by Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,87,98127,98124,98123,20889,98125,59417,92,98122,98126,47,43,40,38,41,39,81563],"class_list":["post-357469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-and-china","tag-iran-covid","tag-iran-economy","tag-iran-government","tag-iran-media-iran-and-the-united-states","tag-iran-news","tag-iran-nuclear","tag-iran-politics","tag-iran-us","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-sanctions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357469","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=357469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}