In a letter obtained by Newsweek, Iran's UN envoy said Trump and Netanyahu “encouraged violence“ and “supported terrorist groups.“
Iran's ambassador to the United Nations has accused President Donald Trump, along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of intentionally inciting violence amid the large-scale protests rocking the Islamic Republic for nearly two weeks.
In a letter sent to U.N. leadership and obtained by Newsweek on Friday, Iranian Permanent Representative to the U.N. Amir Saeid Iravani expressed his government's “strongest condemnation of the ongoing, unlawful, and irresponsible conduct of the United States of America, in coordination with the Israeli regime, in interfering in Iran’s internal affairs through threats, incitement, and the deliberate encouragement of instability and violence. “In recent days, officials of the United States, in particular the U.S. President, have stood side by side with the criminal Prime Minister of the Israeli regime, issuing public statements framing Iran’s domestic matters as requiring external 'intervention,' 'rescue,' or coercive political outcomes,“ Iravani wrote. “The coordinated conduct of the United States and the Israeli regime is evident. “Through inflammatory statements, political signaling, and public threats,“ he added, “they have encouraged violence, supported terrorist groups, incited societal destabilization, and sought to transform peaceful protests into violent disorder under the guise of 'support,' 'rescue,' or the 'protection of the Iranian people.'“ The letter followed Trump once again reiterating his threat of potential intervention in the event that Iranian security forces were found to have killed protesters, telling reporters at the White House on Friday in a message directed to Iranian officials, “You better not start shooting because we'll start shooting too.“ Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Kermanshah, Iran, on January 8, 2026. A 'Dangerous Precedent' The latest demonstrations appear to be the largest Iran has faced in years, sparked on December 28 by shopkeepers and merchants in Tehran's Grand Bazaar protesting the nation's economic malaise, including declining currency value and rising cost of living. Since then, they have swelled into a broader movement, with citizens of various backgrounds taking to the streets of dozens of cities across the nation, some chanting for the fall of the government. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for calm, vowing to engage with protesters and ordering security forces not to respond with force. Human rights groups have reported on the deaths of dozens of people, most of them protesters but also including at least several members of the security forces. Trump has repeatedly suggested that at least some of the deaths may be attributed to “stampedes,“ though his warnings of possible intervention are being taken seriously, particularly after the U.S. Delta Force raid that seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their home in Caracas just last weekend. The U.S. leader has also demonstrated his willingness to take unprecedented action against Iran, having ordered direct strikes against three Iranian nuclear sites amid the 12-day war between Iran and Israel last June. The action led to the virtual unraveling of nuclear negotiations between Washington and Tehran, which remains subject to intensive U.S. sanctions since Trump exited a multilateral nuclear deal during his first term in 2018. Iravani referred to the U.S. strikes, coupled with the ongoing economic measures, as part of a “dark record“ of U.S. intervention in Iran. With the White House teasing further action, Iravani said Iran “categorically rejects these destabilizing practices by the United States, which undermine the Charter of the United Nations, violate fundamental principles of international law, and threaten the very foundations of international peace and security.“ “If left unchecked,“ he warned, “such conduct would set a dangerous precedent and undermine the very basic international legal order upon which the United Nations is built.“ 'Deliberate and Predictable' The U.S. has a history of intervening in Iran even prior to the Islamic Revolution. A 1953 coup backed by the CIA helped to reinstall the country's pro-West monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who would later be deposed during the 1979 Islamic Revolution that put into place the current system, initially led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Khomeini died a decade later and was succeeded by the current Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Pahlavi died in exile in Egypt in 1980, yet his U.S.-based son, Reza Pahlavi, continues to claim the crown and has positioned himself as a leader should the Iranian government collapse. Trump has thus far declined to meet with the crown prince of the fallen dynasty, instead suggesting during an appearance on the Hugh Hewitt radio show on Thursday that “we should let everybody go out there and we see who emerges.“ He also suggested Khamenei was “looking to go someplace“ else as the situation is “getting very bad“ in Iran. Netanyahu also addressed what he called “dramatic events in Iran“ during a cabinet meeting on Sunday, stating that “the government of Israel, the State of Israel, and my policy, we identify with the struggle of the Iranian people, with their aspirations for freedom, liberty, and justice.“ “It is very possible that we are standing at the moment when the Iranian people are taking their fate into their own hands,“ Netanyahu said. While internet and phone service outages have throttled the flow of information out of Iran, images and videos continue to indicate large crowds amassing in major cities, with some footage appearing to show open clashes between protesters and security forces as well as the widespread destruction of property. In his letter to U.N. leadership on Friday, Iravani held the U.S. to account directly for the escalation of the demonstrations. “When senior officials of a Member State violate the very basic principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other Member States, publicly encourage unrest, legitimize violent escalation, and signal external backing for confrontation or the threat of force, the resulting harm is neither accidental nor incidental,“ Iravani wrote. “It is deliberate and predictable. “The transformation of peaceful protests into violent, subversive acts and widespread vandalism constitutes the direct and foreseeable consequence of such policies,“ he added. “Full responsibility for their consequences rests squarely and unequivocally with the United States.“
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