Headlines- Iran is "desperate" to meet and discuss, according to US President Donald Trump, who also threatens to launch a "very heavy" attack on the purported new Iranian nuclear site.
- Iran's state media claimed on Tuesday that Iran's top joint military command declared that if the US hit Iranian nuclear sites, it would target the interests of the US and its allies.
- US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the United States will permit direct flights to Lebanon, more than 40 years after direct flights between the two countries were halted in 1985, during the administration of US President Ronald Reagan, after the hijacking of TWA Flight 847.
- Iranian drone strikes are being intercepted by Kuwait's air defenses, according to the army.
- On Capitol Hill, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth informed lawmakers that the United States had already spent $37.5 billion on the war in Iran.
Tag: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
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Mark Lowcock, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, briefs Security Council members on the Middle East during a videoconference (Yemen)
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The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq is briefed by Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad speaks during a videoconference with members of the United Nations Security Council about the Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (UNITAD)
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Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations, Audra Plepyt (left), pays Secretary-General António Guterres a farewell call
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Mr. Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives, the nominee for the position of President of the General Assembly for the seventy-sixth session, conducts an informal interactive dialogue with the General Assembly
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets with Zhang Jun, China’s Permanent Representative to the UN and the Security Council’s President
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UNESCO’s Deputy Director-General, Xing Qu, speaks at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) commemoration of World Press Freedom Day 2021. The year’s theme is “Information as a Public Good,” which serves as a reminder to value information as a public good and to investigate what can be done in the creation
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Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, speaks at the high-level collaborative discussion on antimicrobial resistance held by the United Nations General Assembly (AMR)
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Volkan Bozkir, President of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, addresses the General Assembly meeting on the impact of rapid technological change on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets
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Eva-Maria Lijmets, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Estonia, addresses the open debate with United Nations Security Council members in connection with Protection of civilians in armed conflict: indispensable civilian objects