Individual members of the UN Security Council are attempting to distort the real state of affairs in the Middle Eastern conflict by swapping the roles of victim and aggressor, Permanent Representative of Iran to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani said.
"Certain members of the Security Council are making attempts to swap the roles and positions of the victim and the aggressor. They are trying to encourage the aggressors and punish the victim through a biased and politically motivated resolution," he told reporters.
The Iranian diplomat specifically pointed to a document prepared by Bahrain in the UN Security Council, which condemns Iranian strikes on the territory of Gulf countries and calls on Tehran to observe international law. However, the draft resolution contains no mention of the United States and Israel, which attacked the Islamic Republic. The vote on the document is likely to take place on March 11. "If adopted [the resolution], the aggressors — Israel and the United States — will be rewarded and encouraged to continue committing acts of aggression. Today it is Iran; tomorrow it could be any other sovereign state," Iravani noted.
In turn, Russia has prepared its own draft resolution for the UN Security Council on the Middle East conflict, calling on all parties to return to negotiations immediately and to make full use of political and diplomatic means to resolve it.
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Based on materials from TASS