"We have always supported peace and security, but today in New York and the United Nations I say frankly to the American statesman who are now managing the genocide in Palestine that we do not welcome an expansion of the war in the region," Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in his address.

"But I warn, if the genocide in Gaza continues, they will not be spared from this fire," he went on. "It is our home and West Asia is our region. We do not compromise with any party and any side, and we have no reservation when it comes to other homes' security."