UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting on US-Israeli strikes against Iran

Key Highlights

• The secretary-general is to deliver further remarks at a Security Council meeting in New York at 4 p. m.
• local time.
• France, China, Russia, Bahrain and Colombia each led a push for the extraordinary Saturday meeting, according to a diplomatic source.
• The Russian mission to the UN said it made the request over “the unprovoked act of armed aggression by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Newsletter email address Get it By signing up, you agree to the terms “During the Security Council meeting, we will demand from the United States and Israel to immediately cease their illegal and escalatory actions and embark on a path toward a political and diplomatic settlement,” it added in a statement.
• In a letter to the United Nations, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called on the Security Council to take “immediate” steps to halt what it said was an illegal aggression by the United States and Israel.