Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, told the Security Council on Sunday that “America has once more recklessly chosen to sacrifice its own security merely to safeguard Netanyahu,” referring to the Israeli prime minister. The United States is the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons in combat and was now waging war against Iran under what he said was the “fabricated and absurd pretext” of preventing it from acquiring nuclear weapons, adding, “What a bitter and tragic irony.”