Live Update
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Iranian envoy at UN: ‘All crises and conflicts in Middle East’ caused by Israel
The Iranian ambassador to the UN tells the General Assembly that “the Israeli occupations lie at the center of all crises and conflicts in the Middle East.”
Calling on all countries to vote for a resolution rejecting it, he calls Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “politically incorrect, illegal and unlawful.”