An emergency session of the UN Security Council was convened Saturday Feb. 28 in the wake of the Israeli and American attacks on Iran. Of those who weren’t proponents of further war against Iran, Russia’s Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia was the strongest and most clear in his denunciation of the illegal attack.
“The aggression to which Iran has been subjected today has already spurred the escalation in the region and is liable to spill over far beyond the region,” Nebenzia began. He said the U.S. and Israeli attack is “another unprovoked act of armed aggression against a sovereign and independent UN Member State, in violation of the UN Charter and of the fundamental principles of international law,” and is aimed at “destroying the State that is ‘disfavored’ by the West.”
