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UN doesn't need more resolutions but 'greater capacity to implement them', Bahrain says

Bahrain said that the UN needs to follow through on its resolutions, highlighting those that have condemned Iranian attacks and threats to the freedom of navigation. "We reaffirm that what the United Nations needs today is not more resolutions, but greater capacity to implement them," said Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani. "A resolution adopted but not implemented has no value, and a right that is recognised but not protected has no value or meaning,” he added. Read More…

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US waging 'economic terrorism' against Iran, Iranian FM says

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has accused the US of waging “economic terrorism” against Iran, saying Washington was deliberately seeking to inflict suffering on the Iranian population. Speaking at the UN Security Council in New York, Mr Araghchi said US economic pressure “is deliberately inflicting grave pain” on ordinary Iranians. “This is economic terrorism,” he said. Read More…

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Russian and Iranian foreign ministers discuss regional issues

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov discussed regional developments on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. "Current regional and international issues were discussed with an emphasis on the situation around Iran," ⁠Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement after the meeting. The two sides agreed that a "diplomatic settlement was the only way to end the tension in the Middle East”, the statement added. Read More…

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‘Our people stood steadfast’ amid US, Israeli attacks: Pezeshkian

The Iranian president has said his country defended itself “with utmost strength” after coming under attacks by the US and Israel, who are equipped with the latest technology and advanced weaponry. “Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks and aggressions imposed upon our country, and we defended ourselves with utmost strength,” Pezeshkian said. Read More…

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Pezeshkian says Iranians are ‘victims of terrorism’

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that Iranians “have been the victims of terrorism”, condemning the “illegal US attacks” on the country. “I come from an Iran in which our esteemed supreme leader was assassinated without any legal framework or reason,” he said. “I come from an Iran where, in truth, they bombed a school,” he added, referring to the US attack on Iran’s Minab primary school on the first day of the war. Read More…

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Strikes in Minab, Lamerd not ‘an operational error’: Iranian official

Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, has said the findings of a UN mission confirm that “what happened in Minab and Lamerd was a clear war crime, not an operational error.” Gharibabadi was referring to February’s deadly missile strikes on a primary school in Minab and a sports complex in Lamerd. A UN-backed fact-finding mission said on Thursday that there were “reasonable grounds” to believe the US was behind the attacks and that they constituted war crimes. Read More…

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GCC countries could join existing coalition agreements to form peace mission in Gulf

Former director of the US office of Iranian affairs Joey Hood says that if Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders are “unified” in their approach to Trump when they meet him on Tuesday at the UN General Assembly, it could affect him. “But they’re going to have to do something different than saying we’re just going to keep doing the same thing we’ve done all along, and try to mediate our way out of this while Iran continues to bomb Omani waters and Qatari territory and Saudi pipelines,” Hood told Al… Read More…

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