Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baqaei, has responded to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who had called for an end to “unlawful attacks in the Middle East”.

“Let’s call a spade a spade. This is not “the fighting”; this is an ‘unprovoked act of aggression’ launched by two nuclear armed regimes against Iran,” Baqaei said in response.

“We WERE in ‘serious diplomatic negotiations’ while the US/Israel attacked Iran, for a second time during the past 9 months,” he said.

“You are concerned about ‘grave risk to the global economy’; what about the innocent civilians, including 175 little angels slaughtered in the city of Minab, and many more killed and maimed across Iran during the past seven days of American/Israeli criminal acts?!”

Baqaei further said that the UN should be forthright and “shoulder its legal and moral responsibilities regarding this illegal war on Iran”.

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