Israel’s UN envoy blasts countries that criticized US strike on Iran: ‘Where were you when Iran raced toward the bomb?’

“Last night, history changed,” declares Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.

“The United States, the leader of the free world, removed the greatest existential threat facing the free world,” he says. “This was not a war of choice; this act was a necessity; it was a righteous act.”

Danon rails against states who criticized the US strike: “Where were you when Iran raced toward the bomb?

“Where were you when it enriched uranium far beyond the point of civilian use? When it buried entire fortresses beneath mountains to prepare for our extermination? Where were you when Iran turned negotiation into theater and deceit into strategy?”

“You were silent. You were complicit. You were afraid. You were bystanders,” he charges.

His comments come after Iran’s envoy blasts Israel’s “barbaric assault” on Iran, saying “history will not forget these tragic days,” identifying Iran as a “peace-loving” and a “non-nuclear state,” and Israel as a “criminal regime.”

Amir-Saeid Iravani says that “internationally wanted war criminal Netanyahu succeeded in hijacking US foreign policy, dragging the United States into yet another costly baseless war.”

“Iran reserves its full and legitimate right under international law to defend itself against this blatant US aggression and its Israeli proxy. The timing, nature and scale of Iran’s proportionate response will be decided by its armed forces,” he says.