Svmuu reported that, according to Al Jazeera, in a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Iran's envoy to the United Nations stated that Iran rejects the US act of piracy against Iranian vessels and that Iran has the right to retaliate. The US should be held responsible for the impact of its piracy on regional and global security. The Iranian envoy also called on the UN Security Council to demand that the US immediately release the seized Iranian ships. (Jin Shi)