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    Iran's U.N. Ambassador: U.S. Escalating Hostilities Like A 'Knife Under Your Throat'

    In an interview with NPR, Majid Takht Ravanchi also denied responsibility for the attack on two tankers last week and steadfastly maintained that Iran is not interested in war.
    by Steve Inskeep Jun 21, 2019 4 minutes
    Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, pictured here in 2015 at a news conference in Mexico City. In an exclusive interview with NPR, Ravanchi said flaring tensions between Washington and Tehran have made diplomatic talks hostile.

    Iran's ambassador to the United Nations is defending shooting down a U.S. surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz and says Tehran will not be forced back into negotiations with the White House.

    "You cannot negotiate with somebody who has a knife in his hand putting the knife under your throat," Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, said in an exclusive interview with NPR. "That cannot be acceptable by anybody. Any reasonable person cannot accept to have negotiations with somebody who is threatening you."

    In the 20-minute sit-down interview with Steve Inskeep, host of NPR's , Ravanchi also denied responsibility for an attack on and steadfastly maintained that Iran is not interested in war, only in protecting its borders from what it sees as illegal intrusions.

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