Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS)
Posted on 01/04/2018 4:48:08 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
The UN Security Council is holding a meeting on Friday to discuss the Iran protests. The US called for the extraordinary council sitting...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov is reported to have said: “Iran's domestic affairs have nothing to do with the United Nations Security Council's role.”
He added that the possibility of new US sanctions on Iran were “illegitimate”.
Nikki Haley, the US Representative at the UN, proposed the emergency meeting of the Security Council earlier this week.
Speaking on Tuesday she said: “Nowhere is the urgency of peace, security, and freedom being more tested than in Iran.
“It takes great bravery for the Iranian people to use the power of their voice against their government, especially when their own Government has a long history of murdering its own people who dare to speak the truth.”
She added “the international community has a role to play” in the conflict and that “the UN must speak out”.
More than 1,000 people have been arrested and at least 21 people have been killed during the Riot police have used extreme measures such as water cannon and tear gas to try and disperse crowds.
President Trump criticised Iran’s actions on Twitter earlier this week.
On Twitter, he said: “Many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up with regime’s corruption and its squandering of the nation’s wealth to fund terrorism abroad.
“Iranian government should respect their people’s rights, including the right to express themselves. The world is watching.”
Protests across Iran broke out on December 28 as furious citizens called on President Hassan Rouhani’s Government to focus less on issues abroad and more on domestic problems.
Chants of "not Gaza, not Lebanon, my life for Iran" and "leave Syria, think about us" have broken out in cities across the country.
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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS)
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