Iran Rejects US-Backed UN Strait of Hormuz Resolution, Calling It Doomed to Fail

1 articles · Updated · Middle East Eye · May 11

Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, rejected a US-backed UN Security Council draft on the Strait of Hormuz and said it was “flawed, biased, political, and doomed to failure.”
Writing on X, he accused Washington of recasting the crisis by focusing on freedom of navigation while ignoring what Tehran calls US and Israeli military aggression and an illegal siege.
Gharibabadi said any resolution that does not address the alleged aggression, the siege and Iran’s claimed right to self-defence lacks legal and moral credibility.
The response signals Iran will resist international efforts to frame the Hormuz crisis primarily around shipping access rather than the broader regional conflict driving it.

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