Amir Saeed Iravani in a letter to the UN: US is the aggressor, not the victim

The account of the matter is that, in two Persian-language reports, a letter from Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s representative to the United Nations, to the UN Secretary-General and the rotating president of the Security Council was covered. According to these reports, he rejected the U.S. claim in the letter that Ansarallah acts on behalf of Iran, saying that Sanaa officials represent a significant segment of the Yemeni people and make their decisions independently. In the letter, Iravani also said the U.S. claim of adherence to the “Islamabad memorandum of understanding” is baseless, and that the United States has not fulfilled its commitments since signing it and has undermined its implementation. In *Etemad*’s coverage, the same letter places greater emphasis on the assertion that “the United States is the aggressor, not the victim,” and refers to “two unprovoked wars of aggression” alongside the Israeli regime.

• Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s representative to the United Nations, sent this letter to the UN Secretary-General and the rotating president of the Security Council.
• In both reports, Iravani described the claim that Ansarallah acts on behalf of Iran as “completely baseless.”
• In the *Mehr* text, Iravani said that Sanaa officials represent a significant segment of the Yemeni people and make their decisions independently and in accordance with the interests of the Yemeni people.
• The newspaper *Etemad* conveyed the same point with the phrase: “Efforts to portray their actions as being carried out at Iran’s direction are misleading, politically motivated, and unsupported by any evidence.”
• In this letter, Iravani also described the U.S. claim of compliance with the “Islamabad memorandum of understanding” as baseless and unsupported by evidence.
• According to *Mehr*, he said the United States has, almost immediately after signing that memorandum to this day, consistently refused to fulfill its commitments.
• *Mehr* added that Iravani accused the United States of actively and deliberately undermining the implementation of that memorandum.
• In *Etemad*’s coverage, Iravani stated plainly: “The United States is the aggressor, not the victim.”
• *Etemad* accompanied this claim with an explanation, writing that in his view the United States, by launching “two unprovoked wars of aggression” alongside Israel, violated the UN Charter.
• In *Mehr*’s coverage, the tone of the letter is more focused on rejecting the attribution of Ansarallah’s actions to Iran and questioning the U.S. claim regarding a specific agreement.
• In *Etemad*’s coverage, beyond the same rejection of attribution, the main emphasis is on the legal and political confrontation between Iran and the United States and on labeling the United States as the “aggressor.”. Coverage difference: The two media outlets are aligned on the letter’s core message, but *Etemad* highlights sharper, more political statements and emphasizes the phrase “the United States is the aggressor, not the victim” and the reference to “two wars of aggress...