Donald Trump has issued a strong rebuttal to proposals that Iran might appeal to the United Nations to compel the United States to pay for the damages from their recent strikes on Tehran.
The President ordered military action against key Iranian nuclear facilities last Saturday night, June 21. Trump later announced that the mission was a ‘success,’ having ‘completely obliterated’ the Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan nuclear facilities in Iran.
In retaliation, Iran targeted Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base, the largest US military installation in the Middle East with approximately 10,000 US troops, and also launched missiles at the Ain al-Asad air base in Western Iraq.
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, addressed a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres accusing the US and Israel of initiating the recent conflict in the Middle East.
“We officially request hereby that the Security Council recognize the Israeli regime and the United States as the initiators of the act of aggression and acknowledge their subsequent responsibility, including the payment of compensation and reparations,” he stated.
“While the full scale of the losses is under assessment, several hospitals and relief centers were targeted in grave breach of international humanitarian law, a few energy installations were targeted with the aim of disrupting daily lives of civilians.”
President Trump was questioned about the letter during July 4th festivities at the White House on Friday, and he responded in straightforward terms.
“It’s pretty ridiculous,” Trump remarked regarding the accusation that the US is to blame.
This follows a threat from an Iranian hacker group known as ‘Robert’ to release 100GB of stolen emails from Trump’s administration.
The hackers, who remain anonymous, informed Reuters that they had obtained a large volume of email content from accounts belonging to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, lawyer Lindsey Halligan, adviser Roger Stone, and adult film star Stormy Daniels.
FBI director Kash Patel responded to the threat, warning that ‘anyone associated with any kind of breach of national security will be fully investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law’.
Meanwhile, Marci McCarthy, director of public affairs for the cyberdefense agency CISA, took to Twitter, stating: “This so-called cyber ‘attack’ is nothing more than digital propaganda, and the targets are no coincidence.
“This is a calculated smear campaign meant to damage President Trump and discredit honourable public servants who serve our country with distinction.
“These criminals will be found and they will be brought to justice. Let this be a warning to others, there will be no refuge, tolerance, or leniency for these actions.”