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U.S. to UN: We Cannot Allow Iran to Hold the World's Economy Hostage
(U.S. Mission to the UN) U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz told the UN Security Council on Thursday: "Three months ago through Resolution 2817 led by the Kingdom of Bahrain, this Council stood with our friends in the Gulf without opposition, as their hospitals, as their airports, energy infrastructure, resorts were under blistering fire from Iranian drones and missiles....I visited some of the locations that the Iranians have hit....It was deliberate, it was well planned, it was malicious." "I visited the Bahraini Petroleum Company, where I saw where Iran very precisely targeted the fire suppression lines first. They then targeted first responders, so that they could not respond. They targeted a site literally in the middle of a neighborhood. Fortunately, the drone didn't explode. It would have potentially killed two to three thousand families in a massive, massive explosion." "They even aimed at chemical storage areas, again, where direct strikes could have killed thousands of innocent people in what Iran, I'm sure their representative today, will call neighbors and colleagues. That's not how you treat neighbors in my neighborhood, where I come from." "Meanwhile, they've stopped every ship from transiting the Straits of Hormuz, and it didn't matter if the ship was carrying fertilizers to farmers in Africa, aid to Sudan, fuel to Japan, whether they were involved in this conflict or not....Iran sought to punish the world, all of us, all of you.... Iran cannot and we cannot allow it to hold the world's economy hostage....Iran still hasn't shown the world a basic level of decency and respect."