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