Iran accuses US of 'brazen' plan to change its government

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson statement on support to Iran regime change triggers verbal war.

June 28, 2017 09:20 am | Updated 09:22 am IST - UNITED NATIONS

Iran's envoy to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo.

Iran's envoy to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo.

Iran is accusing U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of “a brazen interventionist plan” to change the current government that violates international law and the U.N. Charter.

Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Gholamali Khoshroo said in a letter to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres circulated Tuesday that Mr. Tillerson’s comments are also “a flagrant violation” of the 1981 Algiers Accords in which the United States pledged “not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s internal affairs.”

Mr. Tillerson said at a June 14 House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the State Department budget that U.S. policy is to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons “and work towards support of those elements inside of Iran that would lead to a peaceful transition of that government.”

Mr. Khoshroo urged all countries to condemn such “grotesque” statements.

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