NEW DELHI: The United Nations Safety Council, together with representatives from america, paid tribute to the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation by observing a minute of silence throughout their Monday assembly. Raisi and different officers misplaced their lives in a tragic helicopter accident.
Mozambique’s UN ambassador, Pedro Comissario Afonso, who at present holds the rotating Council presidency for the month of Might, requested that the members stand and preserve a second of silence ‘in remembrance of the lack of life in a crash of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi’ and his staff.
Nevertheless, the gesture was swiftly denounced by Israel’s UN consultant, Gilad Erdan, who described it as a “shame.”
In a video message shared on the social media platform X, Erdan expressed his disbelief, stating, “You noticed accurately. The UN Safety Council devoted a second of silence in reminiscence of the mass murdering president of Iran, Raisi. What a shame.”
Mozambique’s UN ambassador, Pedro Comissario Afonso, who at present holds the rotating Council presidency for the month of Might, requested that the members stand and preserve a second of silence ‘in remembrance of the lack of life in a crash of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi’ and his staff.
Nevertheless, the gesture was swiftly denounced by Israel’s UN consultant, Gilad Erdan, who described it as a “shame.”
In a video message shared on the social media platform X, Erdan expressed his disbelief, stating, “You noticed accurately. The UN Safety Council devoted a second of silence in reminiscence of the mass murdering president of Iran, Raisi. What a shame.”
Erdan, who has been more and more vocal in his criticism of the United Nations following Hamas’s assault on Israel on October 7, additional added, “The Safety Council has grow to be a menace to world peace and safety.”
