Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei has slammed Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, who got into a heated exchange with the UN’s special representative for children and armed conflict, Vanessa Frazier.

Frazier attempted to interject while Danon was delivering remarks to a meeting, prompting him to yell, “You will be quiet because I am speaking now.”

Baghaei, in a post on X, has called the outburst a “shameful exhibition of arrogant defiance against reason, law, morality, and justice”, adding that it is “yet another inevitable result of the absolute impunity bestowed upon an apartheid terrorist regime by its enablers”.

“This regime continues its genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people and throughout the region with utter disregard for all civilised norms,” he asserts. “It is long past time for the world to rise and confront this grave, unprecedented threat to peace and humanity.”