Mike Waltz turns tables on Iranian envoy at heated UN meeting

U.S. ambassador Mike Waltz and Iranian envoy Saeid Iravani clashed at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting amid escalating regional tensions.

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Moments later, Waltz responded: "Frankly, 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."

The exchange came during an emergency Security Council briefing as the United States, Israel and Iran entered war, with diplomats offering sharply different interpretations of the expanding military campaign and its legality under international law.