UN Security Council Clashes Over Iran Strikes

0:00Here's more news from across the UK from March 1st, brought to you by NordVPN. If you use public Wi-Fi or care about your privacy online, NordVPN helps keep your connection secure across all your devices, links in the episode description, tensions boiled over at an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting after United States and Israeli Airstrikes hit Iranian nuclear and missile sites early Saturday morning around 1.15am. The operation, called Epic Fury, aimed to dismantle parts of Iran's security setup and curb its weapons programs. Iran's ambassador accused the strikes of being unprovoked aggression that violates international law, the second such attack in recent months. He urged the United States representative to show more politeness during the heated session in New York. The United States ambassador brushed it off, saying he would not dignify the remarks, especially from a regime he blamed for killing and imprisoning. Thousands of its own people seeking freedom.

1:02Israel's ambassador defended the action as a necessary step against an existential threat from state-backed hatred. United States officials described the strikes as targeted efforts to reduce missile threats to allies, hit naval assets, and disrupt arms for. Milletons like the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas. They pointed to years of UN resolutions demanding Iran Hought uranium enrichment which had ignored. Iran now plans to invoke its right to self-defense under the UN Charter, while the Secretary-General warned the escalating conflict poses a grave risk to global peace and call for urgent diplomatic solutions to avoid further violence.