Iran protests latest: Trump envoy tells UN ‘all options on the table’ as US aircraft carrier heads for region
The US says “all options are on the table” for Donald Trump to stop a brutal crackdown by the Iranian security forces on economic protesters.
Trump’s envoy to the UN, Mike Waltz, made the comment during an emergency Security Council meeting to discuss the Iran crisis. The US also warned Tehran’s leadership that any further killing will have “grave consequences” as a US aircraft carrier moves closer to the Middle East.
While Trump has repeatedly threatened to intervene in Iran, he also says he has received assurances that the authorities in Tehran will stop killing protesters and that there are no plans to execute hundreds who have been arrested.
“President Trump is a man of action, not endless talk like we see at the United Nations. He has made it clear all options are on the table to stop the slaughter,” Waltz told the Security Council meeting, which Washington had requested.
Iran’s deputy UN ambassador Gholamhossein Darzi said Iran does not seek escalation or confrontation and accused Waltz of resorting to lies “to conceal his country’s direct involvement in steering unrest in Iran to violence”.The US dismissed allegations that the protests are “a foreign plot to give a precursor to military action”.
