US Ambassador Nikki Haley urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to adopt the Trump administration's comprehensive approach to Iran and address all aspects of its "destructive conduct" — not just the 2015 nuclear deal.
She told the council that Iran "has repeatedly thumbed its nose" at council resolutions aimed at addressing Iranian support for terrorism and regional conflicts and has illegally supplied weapons to armed groups in Yemen and Hezbollah in Syria and Lebanon.
Haley cited a long list of Iranian violations, including threatening freedom of navigation, cyberattacks, imprisonment of journalists and other foreigners, and abuses of its people by persecuting some religions.
According to the Associated Press, she called Iran's most threatening act its repeated ballistic missile launches.
"This should be a clarion call to everyone in the United Nations," Haley said, warning that when Tehran starts down the path of ballistic missiles, “we will soon have another North Korea on our hands."
Haley said the Security Council has the opportunity to change its policy toward Iran.
"I sincerely hope it will take this chance to defend not only the resolutions but peace, security and human rights in Iran," she said.
"Judging Iran by the narrow confines of the nuclear deal misses the true nature of the threat," Haley stressed. "Iran must be judged in totality of its aggressive, destabilizing and unlawful behavior.”
