WATCH: Russia blasted the U.S. for running a “regime change” operation in Iran, while the Iranian envoy said “any act of aggression, direct or indirect, will be met with a decisive, proportionate, and lawful response.”
The U.N. is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearly than in the Gaza genocide.
The United Nations Security Council met on Friday to debate Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran and Tehran’s response, with the Iranian and Israeli envoys clashing.
Condemning U.S. exceptionalism, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov laid out to the Security Council how the world can overcome U.S.-led aggression to find peaceful co-existence in a multilateral world.
The United States Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have called for a humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza as well as for Israel to rescind its order to 1.1 million Gazans to leave their homes…
Calls to reform the Security Council have been made many times in the past, but Ramzy Baroud says Beijing’s position is particularly important in both language and timing.