UN investigation into Iranian drones "illegal": Iravani
ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency
Tue / 25 October 2022 / 15:15
Tehran (ISNA) - Iran's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations Amir Saeed Iravani stressed on Tuesday that UN investigation into baseless claims about the use of Iranian drones in Ukraine is illegal in the context of Resolution 2231.
In a letter to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Iravani emphasized that the organization shouldn't act based on the Western countries' claims.
"West countries are trying to establish a fabricated link between Security Council Resolution 2231 and the use of drones in the Ukraine crisis, while Resolution 2231 neither prohibits the export of weapons nor gives the UN Secretariat the necessary instructions and capacity to conduct the investigation," he said.
In this letter, Iravani outlined Iran's explicit stances on allegations and baseless claims made by the Europan troika (France, Germany, and Britain) and the US regarding the use of Iranian-owned drones in the Ukraine conflict.
"It is ironic that these countries, particularly the three Permanent Members of the Security Council, accuse Iran of violating a specific paragraph of Security Council Resolution 2231 (2015), while they continue to be in flagrant violation of all their explicit legal obligations under that same resolution. A current example of this is the United States' illegal withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which is in material breach of the peremptory norms of international law, the Charter of the United Nations and Security Council Resolution 2231 (2015)," the letter said.
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