Iran Condemns U.S. Veto Against U.N. Protection Force on Palestine

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Sunday, December 16, 2001

Iran Condemns U.S. Veto Against U.N. Protection Force on Palestine

Iran on Saturday condemned the United States for its veto on a draft resolution presented by theArab countries to the U.N. Security Council on sending aninternational force to protect the Palestinians, the official IRNAnews agency reported.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi noted thatthe U.S. has stood against the demand of the internationalcommunity while the defenseless Palestinians have been exposed toIsraeli attacks every day.

"The U.S. is pressing on with the old means of the cold war eraand the bankrupt policy of iron-fist to support Israeli stateterrorism", he denounced, calling for U.N. Secretary General KofiAnnan's personal intervention and active role of the Islamic andArab states to stop Israeli violence against the Palestinians.Dispatch of international observer force under the umbrella ofthe United Nations is the only way to stop bloodshed in occupiedPalestinian territories, the spokesman stressed.

Earlier in the day, the U.S. vetoed during a U.N. SecurityCouncil session a draft resolution condemning all terrorist actsagainst civilians, executions without trial and excessive use offorce against Palestinians and calling for the establishment of amonitoring mechanism to protect the Palestinians from Israeliaggressions.

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