The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry has denounced the United States for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution that called for an immediate ceasefire and full humanitarian access in Gaza, where the Israeli regime has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians during the past 20 months.
Esmaeil Baghaei stated on Thursday that the US move to block the draft resolution, which was supported by 14 of the 15 members of the council, marks a blatant disrespect by the US government for the global and regional demand to end Israeli brutalities.
“This action also clearly represents the moral decline of American policymakers, and constitutes evidence of their complicity and partnership in the massacre and infanticide in occupied Palestine,” he noted.
Baghaei then recalled the extensive record of the US in preventing any serious action by the UN Security Council to hold the Zionist regime to account.
“Over the past few decades, the US government has vetoed Security Council resolutions more than 50 times, standing against the international community’s demand to enforce law and prevent gross violations of international law by the Zionist regime, thereby consolidating the occupying regime’s impunity.
“This is undoubtedly one of the main factors in the continuation of the occupation and colonial genocide by Israel, making the US a direct accomplice in the crimes of the Israeli regime,” the Iranian diplomat said.
The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman also emphasized the responsibility of all governments and international organizations to confront the Zionist regime’s war crimes and genocide, calling upon regional and Muslim states to utilize all their individual and collective capacities to force Israel and its allies to stop the massacre in Gaza and confront the growing threat of the Zionist entity against regional and global peace and security.
At least 54,677 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and another 125,530 individuals injured in the brutal Israeli military onslaught on Gaza since October 7, 2023.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant, citing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the besieged coastal territory.
