US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz directly addressed representatives of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) at the United Nations on Thursday evening, telling them: 'I want to remind you where you are. This is not Tehran; this is the United States and the UN Security Council. You will not succeed in silencing this council.' The statement, reported by a single source, could not be independently verified; the IRGC's UN representative status is unconventional.
US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz reportedly directly confronted representatives of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) at the UN headquarters Thursday evening, according to a single source. Waltz was quoted as telling the Iranian envoys: 'I want to remind you where you are. This is not Tehran; this is the United States and the UN Security Council. You will not succeed in silencing this council.'
The incident, if verified, would mark a highly unusual public confrontation between a senior US diplomat and the IRGC at the UN — a body where the IRGC does not have official state representation, though Iranian diplomatic missions sometimes include IRGC-affiliated personnel. The report comes amid heightened US-Iran tensions over IRGC threats against international shipping and direct communications between the US military and the IRGC, as The Zioneer has previously reported.
The claim relies on a single, unverified the source; no official US or UN confirmation has been published. It is unclear whether the exchange occurred in a formal session or a private encounter. The timing and precise forum remain unconfirmed.
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