NEW YORK (Dispatches) -- Iran's UN mission has released a statement, condemning U.S. meddling and support for recent riots in some Iranian cities.
The Tuesday statement was released shortly after U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley announced that Washington would call on the United Nations to hold an emergency meeting over the situation in Iran.
The United Nations Security Council, however, rejected the call.
"Iran is not in the agenda of the Security Council, but if any member wants to raise this issue and discuss it, of course, we will be ready to work on this. So, it depends on how the Security Council agrees on that,” Kairat Umarov, the president of the Security Council, said.
Kazakhstan holds the rotating Security Council presidency during the month of January.
The remarks came after Haley said the "UN must speak out” regarding protests in Iran and hold emergency sessions of the Security Council and the UN Commission on Human Rights.
Iran's UN mission described remarks by Haley and other U.S. officials as idle talks aimed at supporting violence and unrest in the country.
The comments, it said, are all part of Washington’s attempts to mask its political failures and those of its allies in the region and to take revenge on the brave people of Iran.
"Security and stability in Iran in the past four decades have relied on its own people,” the statement said. "The Iranian people will protect their rights and achievements despite the recent fake media hype and will not allow violence and destruction to undermine these rights.”
The mission further denounced "crocodile tears” shed by the Trump administration for the Iranian nation, saying Iranians still remember Washington’s support for the Pahlavi monarchy and the 1953 coup d’état in Iran.
Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif meanwhile said Iran’s security and stability depend on its own people, adding that "infiltrators" will not be permitted to violate the rights of the Iranians.
"Iran's security and stability depend on its own people, who — unlike the peoples of Trump’s regional "bffs”—have the right to vote and to protest," Zarif said in a post on his official Twitter account on Tuesday.
"These hard-earned rights will be protected, and infiltrators will not be allowed to sabotage them through violence and destruction.”
Trump posted several tweets to express his support for riots in Iran. In his latest tweet on Tuesday, the U.S. president said, "The (Iranian) people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The U.S. is watching!"