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  • UN 2025-08-03 21:43

    European ‘Snapback’ threat lacks legal standing: Iran to UN

    TEHRAN – Iran has officially notified the United Nations that any attempt to reimpose UN sanctions through the snapback mechanism would be illegal and devoid of legal standing.

  • Mohammad Reza Mokhber Dezfouli 2025-07-30 22:52

    Top Iranian academic urges UN Secretary General to uphold science, nations' sovereignty

    TEHRAN – Mohammad Reza Mokhber Dezfouli, President of the Academy of Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a letter to António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nation, has called for the condemnation of imposed Israeli war against Iran and articulation, through word and deed, of the unwavering commitment of the international community to the defence of science, the protection of scholars, the sanctity of scientific and academic institutions, and the inalienable sovereignty of all nations.

  • Except U.S. the entire world is calling for establishment of Palestinian state 2025/07/30

    By Bahram Moradi

    US boycott of UN meeting on Palestinian statehood not unexpected

    TEHRAN - While dozens of countries held a three-day conference at the United Nations in New York to urge the world to work towards a two-state solution between Israelis and the Palestinians within the 1967 borders, the United States and Israel boycotted the event.

  • Greta Berlin comments on new Flotilla aid ship to Gaza 2025-07-29 20:27

    By Sahar Dadjoo

    Exclusive: Activist says Sumud Flotilla unites 40 nations in renewed push against Gaza blockade

    Greta Berlin says the upcoming mass maritime effort represents the world’s growing refusal to stay silent on the Gaza blockade

    TEHRAN – As the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza deepens and the international community continues to grapple with the fallout of Israel’s months-long siege, seasoned activist Greta Berlin remains resolute: the ships will keep sailing.

  • Israel kidnapped activists on Handala 2025-07-27 22:20

    Israel intercepts Gaza-bound activist boat carrying food aid

    The anti-Gaza war Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) says Israeli troops boarded a boat that was trying to bring food aid to the Gaza Strip by sea, BBC reported.

  • Volker Türk 2025-07-27 22:19

    UN rights chief warns governments may be complicit in “international crimes” if they don’t pressure

    The UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, has urged governments around the world to pressure Israel to end its assault on Gaza – and said those that don’t use their “leverage” may be complicit in “international crimes”, the Guardian reported. 

  • The photo shows a child’s bedroom wall destroyed by Israeli strikes in Tehran’s Narmak neighborhood during the recent 12-day imposed war. 2025-07-20 20:26

    Child killers’ crimes recorded

    Iran urges the UN to break its silence as full report on Israeli war crimes is submitted

    TEHRAN – Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations has submitted a detailed and updated report to the UN Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council outlining war crimes committed by the Israeli regime during its 12-day military aggression against the Islamic Republic.

  • Israel does note renew UN members visa 2025-07-19 16:25

    By Sahar Dadjoo

    Israel’s visa denials: A calculated strategy to undermine humanitarian oversight in Gaza

    TEHRAN- Israel’s repeated refusal to renew visas for the heads of critical United Nations agencies operating in Gaza signals a disturbing and deliberate tactic to obstruct independent humanitarian oversight amid one of the world’s most protracted conflicts. 

  • Iravani 2025-07-11 21:50

    US-backed Israeli aggression a gross violation of intl. law: Iran envoy to UN

    TEHRAN – Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, has strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s U.S.-supported military offensive on Iran, describing it as a flagrant breach of international law and the UN Charter.

  • Hundreds of Gazans killed by the Israeli army regarding GHF program 2025-07-07 22:50

    Foreseeable flaws in Gaza aid project led to shooting of Palestinians

    GHF program has drawn huge crowds near Israeli troops, who opened fire multiple times

    The repeated fatal shootings of Palestinians seeking food at distribution centers in Gaza since late May are an outcome of the aid project’s flawed design, which drew enormous crowds and brought them in proximity to Israeli troops, who opened fire on multiple occasions, according to experts in humanitarian aid programs, witness testimony and visual evidence.

  • Jeffrey Sachs reveals real motives behind Israel’s raid on Iran 2025-07-07 22:29

    By Sahar Dadjoo

    Exclusive: Jeffrey Sachs reveals real motives behind Israel’s raid on Iran

    Professor Sachs says U.S.-Israel divide-and-conquer strategy fuels Middle East instability

    TEHRAN - In the wake of the unprecedented joint military aggression by Israel and the United States against Iran, international observers have turned their attention to the deeper motivations behind the attack, its geopolitical implications, and the broader trajectory of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

  • DRC-Rwanda peace 2025-06-28 22:34

    UN chief welcomes DRC-Rwanda peace deal

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday welcomed the signing of a peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, Xinhua reported.

  • Araghchi 2025-06-22 22:28

    Araghchi demands global condemnation of US strikes in letter to UN

    TEHRAN – In a scathing letter to the UN Secretary-General and Security Council, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi condemned the United States’ “blatant military aggression” against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities as an unprecedented violation of international law. 

  • UN 2025-06-21 14:01

    UN experts: Israeli attacks on Iran ‘deliberate undermining of peace initiatives’ 

    TEHRAN – UN experts, in a meeting in Geneva on Friday, unequivocally condemned recent Israeli military attacks against Iran, saying “the timing of the strikes — coinciding with ongoing diplomatic efforts in Muscat aimed at reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — raises serious concerns about the deliberate undermining of peace initiatives.”  

  • Araghchi 2025-06-20 21:24

    Araghchi addresses UN, says it's time to finally act against Israeli war crimes 

    TEHRAN - In a powerful address at a special session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi condemned Israel for initiating an unprovoked and illegal war against Iran on June 13.

  • iravani 2025-06-20 11:28

    Iran envoy to UN reaffirms Iran’s right to self-defense, urges Security Council action

    TEHRAN – Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has reaffirmed the country’s right to self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter in response to Israel’s continued aggression, calling on the Security Council to urgently address attacks on civilian areas andpeaceful nuclear facilities.

  • Araghchi 2025-06-20 11:21

    Iran calls on UN to enforce resolution 487 following Israeli strike on Arak reactor

    TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has strongly condemned the recent Israeli airstrike on Iran’s Arak Heavy Water Reactor, calling on the United Nations Security Council to uphold international law.

  • Israeli airstrikes on Iran 2025-06-18 13:55

    Health minister urges UN, WHO to slam, halt Israel’s aggression 

    TEHRAN – Health Minister Mohammad-Reza Zafarqandi has called on the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, and the World Health Organization’s director for the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, Hanan Hassan Balkhi, to censure Israeli airstrikes on Iran, and take action to stop the aggression.

  • Iran 2025-06-13 11:06

    Iran urges emergency UN Security Council meeting, vows response to Israeli strikes

    TEHRAN – Iran has formally demanded an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council following the “blatant act of aggression” by Israel.

  • Israel commits crime against humanity 2025-06-10 22:33

    Israel guilty of ‘extermination’ in attacks on schools, mosques: UN

    Israel has committed the crime against humanity of “extermination” by attacking Palestinian civilians sheltering in schools and religious sites in Gaza, an independent United Nations commission report says, according to Al Jazeera.

  • US Envoy at the UN Security Council 2025-06-06 22:04

    'Shameful and calculated deflection:' Iran slams US veto of UN Gaza ceasefire resolution

    TEHRAN – In a letter to UN Security Council President Carolyn Rodrigues-Berkett and Secretary-General António Guterres, Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, condemned the United States’ “unfounded and baseless allegations” against Iran during the June 4 Security Council session on Gaza.

  • Starvation among Gaza children 2025-06-06 21:53

    UN warns of surge in acute malnutrition among Gaza’s young children

    More than 2,700 children below the age of five in Gaza have been diagnosed with acute malnutrition, marking a steep increase in the number of children suffering from the serious medical condition since screening in February, the United Nations reports, according to Al Jazeera.

  • UN Security Council members voting in favour of the draft resolution 2025-06-05 13:04

    US vetoes Security Council Gaza ceasefire resolution as Israeli strikes kill 95

    The United States has vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that called for an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, as Israeli strikes across the enclave have killed nearly 100 Palestinians in the past 24 hours amid a crippling aid blockade.

  • UN condemns Israeli crimes in Gaza 2025-05-24 20:35

    By Wesam Bahrani

    Extermination through planned starvation

    ‘Consequences of starvation on the entire Gaza population will be profound’

    TEHRAN – The United Nations has led urgent global condemnation against the Israeli regime over the escalating hunger crisis in Gaza.

  • 5 more journalists killed in Gaza 2025-05-19 22:54

    By Sahar Dadjoo

    Gaza media blackout deepens as Israeli strikes kill five more journalists

    TEHRAN – The killing of journalists in Gaza has reached an unprecedented and alarming scale, as highlighted by the recent report from the Palestine Chronicle detailing the deaths of five more journalists in Israeli airstrikes, bringing the confirmed total to at least 219 Palestinian journalists and media workers as of May 19, 2025. 

  • China supportsPlestine's two states solution 2025-05-16 22:45

    China urges action on two-state solution to end Palestinian suffering

    Speaking at a UN event commemorating Nakba Day, Geng Shuang, Chinese deputy permanent representative to the UN, urged the international community to take real actions to advance the two-state solution and bring a just, lasting resolution to the Palestinian issue.

  • Iran Flag at the UN HQ 2025-05-11 22:37

    Iran dismisses 'baseless allegations' on missile launcher transfers to Russia as 'utterly absurd'

    TEHRAN – Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations has vehemently rejected a Reuters report alleging Tehran’s plans to supply Russia with launchers for short-range ballistic missiles, calling the claims "utterly absurd" and part of a pattern of "baseless allegations" against the Islamic Republic.

  • ویتکاف 2025-05-08 02:12

    Trump's Middle East envoy to brief UN Security Council on Gaza

    U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will informally brief members of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday on Gaza and other regional issues, a U.S. administration official said.

  • Trump, Waltz 2025-05-02 23:10

    Trump ousts Waltz, nominates him for UN post

    US President Donald Trump has removed Mike Waltz from his post as national security adviser and will nominate him as ambassador to the United Nations, the BBC reported.

  • iravani 2025-04-26 22:27

    Restoring Syria’s sovereignty is key to lasting peace: Iran UN envoy

    TEHRAN – Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, has reiterated Tehran’s unwavering support for a sovereign, stable, and united Syria—free from terrorism, foreign occupation, and external interference.