Trump betrayed diplomacy, American voters: Araghchi
UN urged to probe school bombing in Minab
Iran strongly denounced the American betrayal of diplomacy, with Foreign Minster Abbas Araghchi saying the recent US attacks amid nuclear talks have targeted the negotiation table.
On his X account on Wednesday, Araghchi slammed US President Donald Trump's approach to nuclear negotiations, saying that treating complex talks like a 'real transaction' and relying on 'big lies' can only lead to failure.
The US and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday amid ongoing nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington. In the attack by the US-Israeli forces in Tehran, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and several top Iranian military commanders were martyred. Iran responded with widespread missile and drone attacks against Israel and US bases in the region.
On his account, Araghchi wrote, “When complex nuclear negotiations are treated like a real transaction,and when big lies cloud realities, unrealistic expectations can never be met. The outcome? Bombing the negotiation table out of spite.”
“Mr.Trump betrayed diplomacy and Americans who elected him,” he concluded.
Don't stand on wrong side of history
Also, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has called on Europeans not to stand on the wrong side of the history.
"The EU/E3 once played a pivotal role in int'l diplomacy, helping to forge the 2015 JCPOA — a landmark achievement of European foreign policy that was torpedoed by this U.S. administration," Baghaei wrote on X.
"Today, under pressure from the German Chancellor (Friedrich Mertz), some EU members risk being placed on the wrong side of history by appearing complicit in U.S./Israel acts of aggression & war crimes against the Iranian nation, one of the world’s oldest and the most enduring civilizational Nation-States."
"The Union must oppose any move reminiscent of historical NAZI mindsets and instead uphold its commitment to international law and justice."
Letter to UN
Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva has sent a letter to UN chief’s special envoy regarding the investigation into the US-Israeli crimes committed in Minab school.
In Israel’s terrorist attack on a girls’ elementary school in Minab on Saturday morning, 168 children were killed and 95 were wounded.
In the letter penned to UN Chief’s Special Envoy for Violence against Children Nijat Mala Majid late on Tuesday, Ali Bahreini urged the world body to investigate into the heinous crimes committed by terrorist US government and criminal Israeli regime in girls’ elementary school in the southern city of Minab, Hormozgan Province.
Bahreini emphasized that US-Israeli aggression against Iranian land and territory is a gross violation of the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Since the beginning of attacks against the country on Saturday, approximately 185 students and teachers have been killed, and nearly 20 schools and educational facilities destroyed acreoss the country.
UNESCO urged to take action
Meanwhile, Iranian Culture Minster Reza Salehi Amiri, in a letter to the UNESCO chief, Khaled Ahmed El-Enany Ali Ezz, has urged the internationall body to take action against the US-Israeli attack on its cultyral heritage, the Golestan Palace, which is on the World Heritage List.
In the letter, Salehi Amiri referred to “the serious damage inflicted upon the cultural property of outstanding universal value in the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” calling the UNESCO to “condemn the actions of the United States of America and the occupying regime of Palestine, which constitute a flagrant violation of UNSC Resolution S/RES/2347 (2017), the 1972 UNESCO Convention, and the 1954 Hague Convention.
He also called on the cultural organization to “urge both parties to immediately cease their attacks on Iran’s historical cultural heritage and respect their international obligations in this regard.”
The Islamic Republic of Iran respectfully requests “the immediate dispatch of an independent UNESCO expert mission to assess the extent and nature of the damage, a part of the letter said.
The Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates its full readiness to cooperate closely with UNESCO and its Advisory Bodies in addressing this urgent matter and ensuring the safeguarding of this irreplaceable heritage, the letter concluded.