Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “We absolutely support Israel's right to defend itself from this brutal attack on its own territory that we all witnessed…”

We have held the doors open for meaningful diplomacy and we remain open to dialogue, real productive dialogue without preconditions.

First and foremost, it is to hold accountable those individuals in Iran responsible for committing human rights violations. And this is truly a horrific violation -- the killing of Amini, the blocking of individuals from their ability to…

It’s very difficult to take any of the five permanent members with veto rights over anything that goes on in the Security Council, it’s hard to get them off.

So, we don`t want to treat them, even though they are a permanent member of the security council, they are not behaving with the responsibility that we would expect of a permanent member of the Security Council.