Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council describing President Trump’s recent comments in interviews with the New York Post and Fox News as “reckless and inflammatory statements.” In said interviews, President Trump had indicated his preference for securing a deal with Iran in order to halt nuclear weapons development as opposed to bombing Iran.
Iravani, who understood Trump’s comments to be threatening the use of force, described them to “flagrantly violate international law and the UN Charter,” emphasizing that “any act of aggression will have severe consequences, for which the U.S. will bear full responsibility.”
