{"id":297235,"date":"2025-06-23T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=297235"},"modified":"2025-06-23T07:36:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T06:36:28","slug":"un-chief-gravely-alarmed-by-us-bombing-of-iranian-nuclear-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/06\/un-chief-gravely-alarmed-by-us-bombing-of-iranian-nuclear-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Chief \u2018Gravely Alarmed\u2019 by US Bombing of Iranian Nuclear Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>21 Jun 2025 <\/em>&#8211; The UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\/content\/sg\/statement\/2025-06-21\/statement-the-secretary-general-iran\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described the<\/a> United States\u2019 bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran as a \u201cdangerous escalation\u201d today following eight days of deadly strikes and counter strikes between Tehran and Tel 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field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>\u201cI am gravely alarmed by the use of force by the United States against Iran today,\u201d said the UN chief, reiterating that there is no military solution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"align-right context-un_news_large_credit type-twitter media media--type-twitter media--view-mode-un-news-large-credit\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-media-twitter field--type-string field--label-visually_hidden\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" 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Earlier in the day, Iran\u2019s foreign minister reportedly warned the US against any involvement in the Iran-Israel conflict which erupted on 13 June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadly strikes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At least 430 Iranians are believed to have been killed during waves of strikes since then with around 3,500 injured, according to figures from the Iranian health ministry.<\/p>\n<p>In Israel, 24 civilians have died in the retaliatory attacks according to local authorities with more than 400 missiles reportedly fired towards the country.<\/p>\n<p>B-2 bombers were involved in the US strikes, President Trump confirmed, dropping so-called \u201cbunker buster\u201d bombs on the uranium enrichment site at Fordow which is buried deep inside a mountain south of the capital Tehran.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Avoid a spiral of chaos\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his statement, the Secretary-General reiterated his concerns\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2025\/06\/1164651\" >voiced in<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/main.un.org\/securitycouncil\/\" >Security Council<\/a>\u00a0during Friday\u2019s emergency meeting on the crisis that the conflict \u201ccould rapidly get out of control \u2013 with catastrophic consequences for civilians, the region, and the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He called on all Member States to de-escalate the situation which threatens the stability of the Middle East and beyond, calling for everyone to uphold their obligations under the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/charter-united-nations\/index.html\" >UN Charter<\/a>\u00a0and international law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>At this perilous hour, it is critical to avoid a spiral of chaos<\/strong>,\u201d he added calling for an immediate return to negotiations between the warring parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>There is no military solution. The\u00a0only path forward is diplomacy<\/strong>. The only hope is peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defenddemocracy.press\/un-chief-gravely-alarmed-by-us-bombing-of-iranian-nuclear-sites\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; defenddemocacy.press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 Jun 2025\u00a0&#8211; Ant\u00f3nio Guterres\u00a0described the US bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran as a \u201cdangerous escalation\u201d today following eight days of deadly strikes and counter strikes between Tehran and Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":252955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[1036,1854,1126,1050,742,88,475,880,249,124,70,965],"class_list":["post-297235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-netanyahu","tag-state-terrorism","tag-trump","tag-united-nations","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297236,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297235\/revisions\/297236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}