Russia, China lambast adoption of unilateral resolution against Iran at UNSC amid US-Israeli aggression

Russia and China have lambasted the adoption of a unilateral resolution against Iran at the United Nations Security Council, as an unprovoked war of aggression by a US-Israeli military coalition on the Islamic Republic enters its 13th day.

“Russia and China have lambasted the adoption of a unilateral resolution against Iran at the United Nations Security Council, as an unprovoked war of aggression by a US-Israeli military coalition on the Islamic Republic enters its 13th day”

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The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday adopted a draft resolution by Bahrain, representing the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which condemned Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone attacks on US military bases in Jordan and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, demanding that Tehran immediately halt such aerial attacks.

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Thirteen members of the UNSC voted in favor while the two remaining members – Russia and China – abstained.

The United States and Israel launched a war against Iran on February 28, assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and top military commanders, while Washington and Tehran were involved in indirect nuclear negotiations.

The aggressors have also killed more than 1,300 civilians, including children, and attacked non-military sites, among them schools and hospitals.

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Iran’s retaliatory attacks have successfully targeted many locations in the Israeli-occupied territories, and Tehran insists it has exercised restraint since the onset of the imposed war by limiting its attacks to US military bases and assets particularly in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf.

“Russia and China have lambasted the adoption of a unilateral resolution against Iran at the United Nations Security Council, as an unprovoked war of aggression by a US-Israeli military coalition on the Islamic Republic enters its 13th day”

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, during a telephone conversation with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, emphasized that “Only bases from which attacks are launched against our soil will be targeted, within the framework of legitimate self-defense.”

During the UNSC session, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said a UNSC resolution condemning the Islamic Republic would not help bring peace to West Asia, arguing that the document ignores the “unprovoked” nature of the ongoing “aggression” by the US and Israel and will only exacerbate disagreements between key players in the region.

Nebenzya warned a positive decision could be interpreted by “unscrupulous players, and above all by those who unleashed this war, as a ‘blessing’ for continued aggressive actions against Iran,” and said the resolution disrupts the relation between cause and effect and could mislead readers.

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China’s Ambassador to the UN Zhang Jun told the council the conflict had “neither legitimacy nor legal basis” and that the US and Israel must halt their attacks to prevent further deterioration, and both Nebenzya and Zhang said they tried to convince Bahrain and the US to add a part to the draft specifying the US and Israel as those that waged the war, but all to no avail.