Iran’s UN envoy says Trump’s rhetoric part of ‘broader regime-change policy’

Iran’s UN envoy, Amir Saeid Iravani, has penned a letter to the UN Security Council expressing concern over Trump’s “interventionist rhetoric” towards his country.

Iravani told members of the council that a social media post from the US president calling on protesters to take over Iranian institutions “explicitly encourages political destabilisation, incites and invites violence, and threatens the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran”.

“The statement explicitly made today by the President of the United States, calling for the ‘taking over of institutions,’ must be understood in the context of the failure of the 12-day war of aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran in June 2025, and as an integral component of a broader regime-change policy,” Iravani said.

“The United States and the Israeli regime bear direct and undeniable legal responsibility for the resulting loss of innocent civilian lives, particularly among the youth,” he said.