Cliff Notes
- Israel’s UN ambassador declared that attacks on Iran will continue until the “nuclear threat” is eliminated and Iran’s military capabilities are dismantled.
- Tensions escalated at the UN Security Council, with warnings about the potential for a broader regional conflict amidst exchanges of hostile rhetoric between Israel and Iran.
- UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy emphasised the critical need for diplomatic engagement to avoid further escalation of violence, as Iran condemned Israeli airstrikes as “grave war crimes.”
Israel ‘will not stop’ attacks until Iran’s nuclear threat is ‘dismantled’, says Israel’s UN ambassador
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations has vowed “we will not stop” attacks on Iran until the “nuclear threat is dismantled” and “its war machine is disarmed”.
The two countries traded angry accusations at the United Nations Security Council, as its secretary-general Antonio Guterres warned that expansion of the Israel-Iran conflict could “ignite a fire no one can control”.
Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon vowed: “We will not stop. Not until Iran’s nuclear threat is dismantled, not until its war machine is disarmed.”