UNITED NATIONS, Jan 15 (Reuters) – The United States stands with the “courageous Iranian folks” and President Donald Trump has made it clear “all choices are on the desk to cease the genocide,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Walz advised the U.N. Security Council on Thursday.
President Trump has repeatedly threatened to intervene in support to protesters in Iran, the place hundreds have reportedly been killed in a crackdown on an rebellion towards clerical rule.
But on Thursday, President Trump took a wait-and-see perspective, saying he had heard that the killings had been easing and believed there have been no plans for mass executions presently.
“President Trump is a person of motion, not a person of limitless speak as we see on the United Nations. He has made it clear that each one choices are on the desk to cease the genocide,” Walz stated at a U.S.-requested Security Council assembly.
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He rejected Iranian claims that the protests had been a “international plot to prelude navy motion.”
“Everyone all over the world must know that the regime is weaker than ever and is spreading this lie due to the facility of the Iranian folks within the streets. They are afraid. They are afraid of their very own folks,” Walz stated.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres “urges most restraint at this delicate time and calls on all events to chorus from actions that might trigger additional lack of life or broader regional escalation,” senior U.N. official Martha Povey advised the council.
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