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US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz rebuked Iran during this week’s UN Security Council meeting, saying Tehran “will not silence” the body after the Islamic Republic’s representative claimed council members were spreading lies about the recent attack targeting neighboring Gulf states.
Waltz told Iranian diplomat Amir Saeed Iravani, “Let me remind you where you are.” “This is the United States. This is the United Nations Security Council. You will not silence this institution.”
Waltz’s comments came during an emergency meeting of the council in response to new US air strikes against Iran and drone and missile attacks targeting Bahrain and Kuwait on Sunday.
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US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said while showing photos of the aftermath of Iranian drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait. (United Nations Security Council)
During his remarks, Iravani accused the US, Bahrain and other members of lying and argued that the council meeting should not have taken place.
“Once again, the representative of the United States has resorted to lies and disinformation against Iran in a desperate attempt to justify America’s unlawful acts of aggression,” Iravani said.
He also rejected “baseless allegations made by some Western Council members and the representative of Bahrain”.
The Iranian hardliner behind the US deal has warned that Tehran will not honor the deal if Trump fails to honor it.
Iranian Ambassador Amir-Saeed Iravani speaks during a Security Council meeting at the UN Headquarters after members voted on a draft resolution on reopening the Strait of Hormuz. (Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
“Instead of addressing the root cause of the current crisis, they have ignored the illegal aggression carried out against Iran and sought to blame the victim,” he said. “His double standards and hypocritical behavior have deprived him of the credibility to lecture others.”
In a post on X, Waltz reiterated his position.
“Iran will not silence us on our soil,” he wrote. “It may work in Tehran, but not in the UN Security Council. We will tell the truth.”
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In this handout image released June 11, 2026, firefighters work to extinguish a fire following Iranian drone attacks, in a location given as Bahrain, according to Bahrain’s Interior Ministry. (Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Bahrain/Handout via Reuters)
During the exchange, Waltz showed photos of what he said were the aftermath of the Iranian strikes, including a family whose home in Bahrain was destroyed by a drone drone, a hotel full of tourists that was also hit and a building used by first responders that Waltz said was deliberately targeted.
“Are they lying?” Waltz said of the victims of the attack. “Is this hypocrisy? Is this what this council is here today to condemn? I ask the representative, are these lies? … I would say no.”
Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani said that, since February 28, there have been 808 attacks on the island nation, including 203 ballistic missiles and 605 armed drones.
“These attacks deliberately targeted civilian facilities, critical infrastructure and residential areas, resulting in the deaths of three innocent civilians and wounding of 465 others,” he said, rejecting Tehran’s claim that its aggression is directed solely against military objectives.
Washington and Tehran have repeatedly accused each other of violating the fragile ceasefire agreement. On June 27, President Donald Trump said the US military attacked Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites after Iran violated the agreement.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz speaks after voting on the resolution to unblock the Strait of Hormuz during the UN Security Council meeting on Iran and the Middle East at the UN Headquarters in New York on April 7, 2026. (AFP via Getty Images)
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Officials said the shooting began when an Iranian drone attacked a merchant ship near Oman last week and US forces responded.
Trump wrote on Truth Social, “It is quite possible that they will never learn! There may come a time when we will no longer be rational, and will be forced to finish militarily the job we have successfully begun.” “If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will cease to exist!”
