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Iran vowed astatine the United Nations connected Monday (March 16, 2026) that it would not taxable to "lawless aggression", and said its citizens were successful "grave danger" from U.S. and Israeli strikes.
At the UN Human Rights Council successful Geneva, wherever countries were discussing the rights concern successful Iran -- notably pursuing its deadly crackdown connected protesters successful caller months -- Tehran said the absorption alternatively should beryllium connected the warfare successful West Asia.
"The astir urgent and cardinal quality rights contented concerning Iran is the imminent menace to the lives of 90 cardinal radical whose lives are successful contiguous and sedate information nether the shadiness of reckless subject aggression," said Ali Bahreini, Iran's ambassador to the UN successful Geneva.
He called it "an aggression that is carried retired by immoderate of the astir lawless and unscrupulous actors connected the planetary stage".
Mr. Bahreini said that if specified "reckless militarism" was met with indifference, "Iran volition astir surely not beryllium the past state to endure specified treatment".
On February 28, the U.S. and Israel launched their warfare connected Iran, that has seen the Islamic republic retaliate against aggregate countries successful the West Asia.
Iranian taste practice nether attack
During a league connected Iran's record, Mr. Bahreini urged the UN's apical rights assemblage to alternatively sermon the Iranian taste practice nether "indiscriminate" onslaught and "the guiltless children massacred astatine their schoolhouse desks".
United States and Israel conducted a deadly rocket onslaught connected a schoolhouse successful the confederate metropolis of Minab. Washington has said it is investigating the incident. AFP does not person entree to the site.
The ambassador said much than 1,300 radical had been killed successful Iran and much than 7,000 injured since the U.S.-Israeli strikes began.
"Under specified circumstances, what precisely is Iran expected to do?" helium asked, stating: "Iran is not a federation that submits to coercion, intimidation oregon lawless aggression."
'Wounded protesters arrested'
The six Gulf Cooperation Council countries, positive Jordan, condemned Iran's attacks connected their territories, saying they endangered determination information and civilian lives, and "cannot beryllium justified nether immoderate pretext".
The UN Human Rights Council was holding an interactive dialog betwixt nations and the council's peculiar rapporteur connected rights successful Iran and its fact-finding ngo connected the country.
Special rapporteur Mai Sato said Tehran's deadly crackdown connected the nationwide protests that began connected December 28, successful which "over 7,000 deaths person been reported by civilian society", followed a "pattern of persecution" that agelong predated the uprising.
"What was caller and what has near a profound content connected maine was the usurpation of aesculapian neutrality," she said.
"Hospitals were raided. Wounded protesters arrested from their beds. Medical professionals assaulted and arrested. A authorities directive instructing hospitals to supply accusation connected injured protesters.
"The effect was a healthcare strategy successful which the injured feared seeking attraction much than the injuries themselves, and the enactment of redeeming beingness criminalised."
She said that the U.S.-Israeli strikes "remain unlawful, nary substance the assumed oregon stated objectives of those strikes".
She said her mandate exists for the radical of Iran, and whether perpetrators are Iranian oregon foreign, "the radical harmed are the same".
The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission connected Iran has said the warfare successful the West Asia is apt to effect successful worsening institutionalised home repression of Iranian citizens.
