NNA - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Thursday slammed the United Nations Security Council for failing to tackle the Middle East conflict, APA reports citing Barron's.

"The fire of war is still raging in the Palestinian Gaza Strip and Lebanese cities, and international institutions and assemblies, and at the top of it the United Nations Security Council, as drivers of international peace and security, lack the necessary efficiency to extinguish the fire of this crisis," Pezeshkian told leaders from emerging economies at a summit in Russia.--agencies 
 

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