Iranian foreign minister calls on UN to condemn ‘illegal US interventions’

Ahead of an emergency UN Security Council meeting called to discuss Iran’s deadly protests at the request of the United States, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Secretary-General António Guterres have spoken by phone to discuss the protests and Iran’s request for the world body to do more to condemn what they call foreign influence in the Islamic Republic, according to a readout of the call posted on Iranian state TV.

The semiofficial Tasnim news agency reports that Araghchi implored the top UN official to live up to the “serious expectation” that Iran’s government and its people have of the UN’s role in condemning what the officials called “illegal US interventions against Iran.”