Iran: UN meeting on protests is 'US bullying'
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Iran's UN ambassador says the Security Council's emergency meeting on protests in his country is "a preposterous example" of "US bullying."
Ambassador Gholamali Khoshroo said Friday that "it is a discredit for the Security Council" to discuss what he called a purely domestic matter.
He went on to list protests in the US, from the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 to demonstrations outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
The US called the meeting after giving moral support to Iran's anti-government protesters. US Ambassador Nikki Haley said the session put Iran on notice that "the world will be watching" its actions.
At least 21 people have been killed and hundreds arrested amid anti-government rallies and unrest that began last week. Iran has also seen three days of large pro-government demonstrations.
