(22 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Istanbul, Turkey – 22 June 2025
1. Wide of Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Abbas Araghchi, Iranian Foreign Minister:
"The Islamic Republic of Iran reminds the United Nations, the Security Council, the UN Secretary-General, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and other relevant international bodies of their duty and responsibility to take urgent and decisive action in response to this breach of international law. Silence in the face of such blatant aggression will plunge the world into an unprecedented level of danger and chaos. Humanity has come too far as a species to allow a lawless bully to take us back to the law of the jungle. The Islamic Republic of Iran calls on the Security Council to convene an emergency session to unequivocally condemn the criminal act of aggression by the United States against Iran, and to hold the administration in Washington accountable for its violations of fundamental principles of United Nations Charter and of norms of international law."
++BLACK FRAMES++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Abbas Araghchi, Iranian Foreign Minister:
"The responsibility of the IAEA and its Director General, who threw evidence bias in favor of warmongering parties, paved the way for the current violence and bloodshed, is now clearer than ever. We call on the IAEA Board of Governors to immediately convene and carry out its legal responsibility in response to the dangerous US attack on Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities, all of which have been under the agency’s full safeguards and monitoring."
++BLACK FRAMES++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Abbas Araghchi, Iranian Foreign Minister:
"The world must not forget that it was the United States which, in the midst of a process to forge a diplomatic outcome, betrayed diplomacy, was supporting the genocidal Israeli regime’s launch of an illegal war of aggression on the Iranian nation. Not content with such malign actions, the United States itself has now also opted for a dangerous military operation and aggression against the people of Iran. In doing so, the U.S. administration holds sole and full responsibility for the consequences of its actions, including the Islamic Republic of Iran’s right to self-defense under the principles of the United (Nation) Charter, in accordance with the UN Charter and its provisions allowing legitimate response and self-defense, Iran deserves all options to defend its security, interests and people. Thank you very much."
++BLACK FRAMES++
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Abbas Araghchi, Iranian Foreign Minister:
"There is no red line that they have not crossed. And the last one, the most dangerous one, was happened only last night when they crossed a very big red line by attacking
nuclear facilities. I don’t know how much room is left for diplomacy. We are now calculating the damages. And as I said, the damages are not only for our nuclear facilities,
the damages are for the United Nations Charter. It was not only Iran’s facilities which was bombed, it was also the United Nations Charter."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
The United States stepped into Israel’s war against Iran early Sunday by dropping a 30,000 pound bomb on an uranium enrichment site buried under a mountain, a risky gambit that aimed to destroy the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program after months of failed diplomacy. The attack prompted fears of a wider regional conflict as Iran lashed out at the U.S. for crossing “a very big red line.”
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