Moscow criticizes the Security Council's "provocative game" in Iran's nuclear issue Permanent representative of Russia in international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov: The current situation in the Persian Gulf is extremely worrying. The possibility of renewed conflicts cannot be ruled out. But both the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the UN Security Council, instead of addressing these real problems seriously, continue their usual routine and play meaningless games and provocations around the Iran nuclear case.