United Nations

Iran urges UN to take action to protect Yemeni civilians

TEHRAN, Jul. 17 (MNA) – Iran has called on the United Nations to take necessary measures to protect the lives of Yemeni civilians against the aggressions of the Saudi-led coalition.
2020-07-17 13:49
UN envoy calls for probe into Yemeni civilian deaths

TEHRAN, Jul. 17 (MNA) – The United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen has called for an investigation into Wednesday's airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition that killed at least 11 civilians, including children in al-Jawf province.
2020-07-17 10:30
JCPOA last decade’s greatest diplomatic achievement: Zarif

TEHRAN, Jul. 14 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif referred to JCPOA as the last decade’s greatest diplomatic achievement.
2020-07-14 19:29
Saudi-led coalition violates ceasefire in Yemen

TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) – Saudi mercenaries violated the ceasefire in Yemen and launched a series of attacks on Marib, Al-Jawf, and Al-Bayda provinces.
2020-07-12 23:53
Iran UN envoy:

Gen. Soleimani's assassination clear example of state terror

TEHRAN, Jul. 11 (MNA) – Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations described the brutal assassination of Martyr Soleimani, the hero of the fight against terrorism in the region, as a clear example of state terrorism.
2020-07-11 09:07
UN urges more protection against new zoonoses

TEHRAN, Jul. 07 (MNA) – To prevent the next pandemic, the UN has called for much more deliberate protection of the natural environment to prevent other zootonic diseases from transmitting into the human population from animals.
2020-07-07 12:53
Iran’s Parl. speaker pens letter to heads of intl. assemblies on Israeli occupation

TEHRAN, Jul. 01 (MNA) – Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf penned letters to the heads and secretary generals of international institutions and forums and called on them to adopt decisive steps in confronting and halting Israeli regime’s illegal measures.
2020-07-01 14:08
UN Secretary-General urges countries to boost economic coop. with Iran

TEHRAN, Jun. 30 (MNA) – In the latest report on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 2231, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged other countries to boost economic cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
2020-06-30 22:06
UN Security Council must extend Iran’s arms embargo: Pompeo

TEHRAN, Jun. 30 (MNA) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed the UN Security Council on Tuesday to indefinitely extend an arms embargo on Iran before it expires in October.
2020-06-30 21:01
By Stephen Lendman

The United Nations: An imperial tool

TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) – Headquartered in New York with offices in Geneva, Vienna, The Hague, and Nairobi, the UN is supposed to be an intergovernmental organization that champions peace, opposes war, and represents the rights, interests, and welfare of all nations and people everywhere equitably.
2020-06-29 05:00
UN privileges status quo over both peace and justice: American scholar

TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) – Kevin Barret who has been known as one of America's best-known critics of the war on terror, says the United Nations cannot be considered as “a genuinely democratic international organization”, arguing it has instead been as an “instrument of American and Western soft power”.
2020-06-29 01:00
By: Ivo Freijsen, UNHCR representative to Iran

World Refugee Day: time for rally around Iran on humanitarian purposes

TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) – As I read the new Global Trends report issued last week from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, I cannot help but feel worried. 1 in 97 people worldwide has been forced to flee their homes. This represents 79.5 million people forcibly displaced in and out of their countries at the end of 2019 – an unprecedented number.
2020-06-28 04:02
Sanctions, assassination of Gen. Soleimani, not to break people’s resistance: FM Zarif

TEHRAN, Jun. 27 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the US' imposition of sanctions against Islamic Republic of Iran and assassination of martyr Lt. Gen. Soleimani will not break the resistance and endurance of people.
2020-06-27 20:06
IAEA vulnerable to members with political motives: former French diplomat

TEHRAN, Jun. 27 (MNA) – Iran has reacted strongly to the adoption of a resolution by the IAEA Board of Governors, saying it was drafted by the European trio (France, Germany, and Britain) under a pressure from the United States and Israel.
2020-06-27 19:00
In an interview with MNA;

US sanctions, politicization affecting intl. coop. in fight against drug trafficking: Lotfi

TEHRAN, Jun. 26 (MNA) – Director-General of International Relations Office of Drug Control Headquarters of Iran said that the US sanctions, politicization, and selective approach have adversely affected the concept of international cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking.
2020-06-26 08:00
Israeli annexation plan illegal: UN rights chief

TEHRAN, Jun. 29 (MNA) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called on Israel on Monday to halt its “illegal” plans to annex part of occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank and warned it could lead to deadly clashes.
2020-06-22 22:16
Intl. mechanisms influenced by S. Arabian money, US bullying: Mousavi

TEHRAN, Jun. 17 (MNA) – The Spokesperson of the Iranian foreign ministry, in a tweet on Wednesday, criticized the UN secretariat's decision of removing Saudi Arabia from List of Shame, adding that Saudi Arabia and the US are mocking international mechanisms by spending money and bullying others to achieve their desired interests.
2020-06-17 11:41
Iran lambastes UN exclusion of Saudi-led coalition from child rights list of shame

TEHRAN, Jun. 17 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi, in a statement, slammed the United Nations' dual approach vis-a-vis human rights after the UN chief removed the Saudi-led military coalition that has waged a deadly war on Yemen from the blacklist of violators of child rights.
2020-06-17 10:33
Iran at forefront of fight against drug trafficking: UN rep.

TEHRAN, Jun. 17 (MNA) – UNODC Iran Representative said that international organizations affiliated with the UN confirm that Iran is at the forefront of the battle against drug trafficking.
2020-06-17 08:00
Report of UN Sec. Gen. beyond his power: FM Zarif

TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the report submitted by the UN Secretary General António Guterres about Iran is beyond his power, adding that UN secretary general has issued a completely false, undue and out-of-authority report.
2020-06-16 21:42
UN to hold urgent debate on systemic racism in US

TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) – The UN human rights body will hold an urgent debate on allegations of “systemic racism, police brutality and violence against peaceful protests” in the United States on Wednesday.
2020-06-15 18:00
UN Secretariat’s claim in line with US plot: Mousavi

TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said that the UN report which claims missiles that hit Armaco were of Iranian origin is in line with the US new policy and plot against Iran.
2020-06-15 11:49
Amir Abdollahian says UN Secretariat’s report 'politicized'

TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) – Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian parliament speaker's special adviser on international affairs in his Twitter account reacted to a UN report which claims missiles that hit Armaco were of Iranian origin.
2020-06-14 17:04
Iran questions validity of UN Secretariat’s report on Resolution 2231

TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) – Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nation has rejected the UN secretary-general's report on the implementation of the Security Council Resolution 2231 as flawed and inaccurate.
2020-06-13 08:33
Iran categorically rejects UN Secretariat’s allegations

TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) – Iran has categorically rejected the allegations of the UN Secretariat, saying it has been under clear political pressure from the US and Saudi regimes.
2020-06-13 00:01
Anti-Iranian circles seek to create fear regarding NPT: Ulyanov

TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) – Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said that anti-Iranian circles are striving to create fear and claim that the recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) calls for immediate action regarding the non-proliferation treaty.
2020-06-12 22:18
US retains no right to abuse UN to vilify Iran: FM Zarif

TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the United States has no right to abuse the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to vilify Iran.
2020-06-11 15:58
In separate letters to UN Guterres:

Moscow, Beijing seeking to shield Tehran against US sanctions threats

TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA) – Slamming the efforts of the United States to extend UN arms embargo against Iran which is due to expire in October in Separate letters, Russian FM and Chinese senior diplomat have started building a case at the United Nations against Washington’s claim that it can trigger a return of all sanctions on Iran at the Security Council.
2020-06-10 12:32
US has no right to initiate anything under UNSCR 2231: Iran UN envoy

TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA) – Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi called the remarks of his US counterpart ‘wrong’ and said that the United States has no right to initiate anything under the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231.
2020-06-06 23:53
UN experts condemn modern-day ‘racial terror’ lynchings in US: report

TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA) – A group of 66 United Nations human rights monitors has issued a devastating critique of what they call modern-day “racial terror” lynchings in the US in the form of state-sponsored police violence against black Americans.
2020-06-06 17:45