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United Nations.- Iran declared this Sunday before the UN that it will be the country's armed forces that will decide "the timing, nature, and scale of Iran's proportional response," according to its ambassador to the Security Council, Amir Saeid Iravani, the highest Iranian authority on US soil.
In an emergency session requested this Sunday by his country following the attacks perpetrated last night by the US aviation against three Iranian nuclear plants, Iravani recalled that his country reserves "the full and legitimate right to defend itself against the insolent aggression of the United States and its pawn Israel".
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However, his tone was moderate and he refrained from making more concrete threats against the United States and its interests. Iravani painted his country as "a lover of peace, a founding member of the United Nations and with 5,000 years of culture and civilization", which has been attacked by the U.S., "the only state that has ever used nuclear weapons, killing millions of people in two cities" (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and which now uses the "pretext" that it wants to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. He lamented that "the war criminal (Benjamin) Netanyahu has managed to hijack American foreign policy, dragging the United States into another costly and unfounded war" and that the U.S., "at his request, has chosen to sacrifice its own security simply to safeguard Netanyahu." The Iranian diplomat also lashed out at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, which is in charge of inspecting Iranian nuclear sites to ensure that they do not produce an atomic weapon), as well as against France, Germany and the United Kingdom for the "hypocrisy" and "double standard" they practice by ignoring the other nuclear power in the region, Israel, which, although it has never officially recognized it, has "thousands of nuclear warheads", he said.
