WANA (Nov 05) – Iran has called on the United Nations Security Council to urgently examine the United States’ announced plan to resume nuclear weapons testing.

 

In a letter addressed to the UN Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council, Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, expressed deep concern over recent nuclear threats made by the U.S. President during his remarks on the CBS program 60 Minutes.

 

Referring to the “extremely alarming” statements, Iravani wrote that the U.S. President’s comments constitute “a serious threat to international peace and security” and represent “a blatant violation of the United States’ obligations under international law.” According to Iravani, the U.S. President publicly announced on October 29, 2025, through social media, that he had instructed the “U.S. Department of War” to “begin testing nuclear weapons on an equal footing with other nuclear powers,” emphasizing that “this process will begin immediately.” Subsequently, in an interview aired on October 31, 2025, he stated that the United States alone possesses “enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world 150 times.”

 

Iravani noted that such reckless statements and impulsive rhetoric from the leader of a nuclear-armed state amount to an explicit threat to use nuclear weapons and a clear declaration of intent to resume nuclear testing. He added that this action constitutes a flagrant breach of the United States’ binding obligations under Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which requires effective measures toward nuclear disarmament. It also directly contradicts the purpose and spirit of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)—to which the U.S. is a signatory—and violates Washington’s commitment to halting nuclear tests.

He further stressed that these remarks are particularly troubling given that the United States is one of the three depository governments of the NPT, bearing special legal and moral responsibilities to safeguard the treaty’s integrity. “Instead of fulfilling these responsibilities,” Iravani wrote, “the U.S. President openly glorifies nuclear weapons and threatens catastrophic destruction—statements that dangerously undermine decades of collective international efforts toward disarmament and non-proliferation, heighten the risk of a renewed nuclear arms race, and dramatically lower the threshold for nuclear confrontation.”

 

The Iranian envoy also pointed out the hypocrisy of these threats, noting that they come at a time when the U.S. is “deliberately spreading falsehoods and misinformation to deceive the international community and falsely portray Iran’s entirely peaceful nuclear program as a threat to global peace and security.” Iravani referred to what he described as the “unlawful and aggressive” U.S. airstrike on June 24, 2025, which targeted Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards—facilities belonging to a non-nuclear-weapon state party to the NPT. He called the attack “a gross violation of international law and the UN Charter, as well as a grave assault on the foundations of the global disarmament and non-proliferation regime.”

 

Concluding his letter, Iravani urged the UN Secretary-General to invoke Article 99 of the Charter and immediately refer this matter to the Security Council for assessment of its implications for the global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation system. He also called on the Council to urgently examine these “deeply troubling developments” in accordance with its primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security.

 

The letter requested that it be circulated as an official document of the Security Council.