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Source: https://usun.usmission.gov/remarks-at-a-un-security-council-briefing-on-iran-2/
U.S.: We "Will Not Tolerate Innocents Being Slaughtered in the Streets" of Iran
(U.S. Mission to the UN) Amb. Mike Waltz - U.S. UN Ambassador Mike Waltz told the Security Council on Thursday: "The level of violence, the level of repression that the Iranian regime has unleashed on its own citizens, its own people, has repercussions for international peace and security." "The people of Iran are demanding their freedom like never before in the Islamic Republic's brutal history. Unarmed peaceful people - who love their country - are taking to the streets in pursuit of their legitimate aspirations for a better future." "The Iranian regime...is solely responsible for the economic misery of the Iranian people and the repression of their freedom, and they will be held accountable....President Trump has been clear: He will not - nor should the international community - tolerate innocents being slaughtered in the streets." "Since 1979, for decades, the regime has posed a threat to peace and security. In the name of a religious ideology, the regime calls for death to America and the annihilation of Israel. Even as its own citizens cannot afford the very basics: food, drinking water, very basic medicines, it spends billions to develop its nuclear and ballistic missile programs to threaten its neighbors and the world in its support of terrorism." "The Iranian regime state television amplifies calls for a 'one bomb solution' to wipe Israel off the map, which ironically would be not only a massacre of all Israelis, but also the Palestinian people whom the regime claims to support." "How many people are dead, how many people are wounded, maimed, and abused in the Middle East - in Israel, in Gaza, in Syria, in Lebanon, in Yemen, Iraq - even Venezuela - because of the regime's support for terrorism as the largest state sponsor." "Iran says it is ready for dialogue, but its actions say otherwise. This is a regime that rules through oppression, through violence, and through intimidation, and has destabilized the Middle East for decades. Well, enough is enough. We all have a responsibility to support the Iranian people."