U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz got into a fiery exchange with his Iranian counterpart at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
The heated moment occurred after the United States and Israel conducted Operation Epic Fury on Iran.
“My advice to the representative of the United States is to be polite. It would be better for yourself and the country you represent,” Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani said.
“I’m not going to dignify this with another response, especially as this representative sits here in this body representing a regime that has killed tens of thousands of its own people and imprisoned many more simply for wanting freedom from your tyranny,” Waltz responded.
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Iranian Ambassador: “My advice to the representative of the U.S. is to be polite. It would be better for yourself and the country you represent.”
US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz: “I’m not going to dignify this with another response, especially as this representative sits here… pic.twitter.com/Cr7Ub19R7V
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Earlier in the meeting, Waltz insisted the US military action was lawful, stressing Washington was acting to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and protect global security – even as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the strikes as “a grave threat to international peace and security.”
Guterres claimed the US and Israel violated international law – and the UN Charter – by carrying out the attack and called for an immediate ceasefire.
“We are witnessing a grave threat to international peace and security,” Guterres said.
“Let me be clear, there is no viable alternative to the peaceful settlement of international disputes,” he continued, calling for an immediate return to negotiations to “pull the region, and our world, back from the brink.”
Guterres also condemned Iran’s retaliatory attacks for breaking the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Iran hit those nations as it fired missiles and drones at US bases and facilities across the Middle East and launched counterattacks on Israel.
“The entire world has witnessed the Iranian regime’s wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians. Its presence in the Security Council makes a mockery of the body. But where the UN lacks moral clarity, President Trump and the United States of America will maintain it,” Waltz said.
The entire world has witnessed the Iranian regime’s wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians.
Its presence in the Security Council makes a mockery of the body.
But where the UN lacks moral clarity, President Trump and the United States of America will maintain it. pic.twitter.com/8hVE4wEZ5H
— Ambassador Mike Waltz (@USAmbUN) February 28, 2026
The Hill shared further:
Iravani said during the meeting that the strikes killed Iranian civilians, calling the action a war crime, the AP reported. President Trump announced earlier Saturday that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for decades, was killed in the strikes.
“We are stopping extremism before it becomes unstoppable,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said at the Security Council meeting. “We will ensure that no radical regime armed with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles can threaten our people or the entire world.”
The European Commission, meanwhile, is planning to convene a “special Security College” about the strikes on Monday.