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Tehran slams UNSC nuclear meet as ‘another display of hypocrisy’
Iran's mission to the United Nations dismissed a Security Council meeting convened on the country's nuclear program as "another display of hypocrisy," stressing that there is no legal basis for invoking an expired resolution to target Tehran with sanctions.
The council met on Tuesday under an agenda item concerning the 1737 Committee, a sanctions body established in 2006, after a procedural vote that passed 11-2 with two abstentions. Russia and China voted against convening the meeting, while Pakistan and Somalia abstained.
A number of Security Council members, at the behest of the United States, repeated baseless claims against Iran's peaceful nuclear program and repeated the disinformation campaign of the United States and the Israeli regime like a "parrot," Iran's mission said in a statement. "Another show of hypocrisy and double standards at the UN Security Council meeting," the mission said.
The meeting ended without any result, and no representative of the UN Secretary-General submitted a report.
Tehran's mission underlined that there is no legal basis for the so-called 1737 Committee, no remaining Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran, and no justification for holding meetings under the "non-proliferation" agenda item.
UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), expired on October 18, 2025, terminating the effect of previously imposed resolutions against Iran, Tehran said.
“This is a blatant abuse of the Security Council's authority and a deliberate attempt to mislead the international community,” the mission said.
The mission reaffirmed Iran's commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), stating that for over five decades, it has remained a responsible state party and has never sought nuclear weapons.
"The real threat to the non-proliferation regime is the impunity of those who attack peaceful nuclear facilities under safeguards while claiming to uphold international law and non-proliferation," it noted.