Iran says it has submitted a formal complaint to the UN Security Council over comments by US President Donald Trump suggesting an ultimatum for Tehran between a military strike or reaching a new deal, saying it violates international law and the UN Charter.

Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, said the complaint had been registered as an official UN document.

He did not specify which comments were included but shared an image of a translated excerpt from Trump's remarks in his post announcing the action on X on Monday.

The US president told The New York Post on Saturday, “I would like a deal done with Iran on non-nuclear. I would prefer that to bombing the hell out of it. . . . They don’t want to die. Nobody wants to die. If we made the deal, Israel wouldn’t bomb them,” Trump added.

After coming to office in January for his second term, he had said that reports the United States and Israel would work together on a devastating military attack on Iran were overblown.