US and allies call emergency meeting of UN Security Council Meeting comes after alleged chemical attack on civilians in Douma, Syria NEW YORK: ​Russia’s UN ambassador is accusing the United States of deliberately stoking international tensions and “unpardonably” threatening Russia. Vassily Nebenzia told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on a suspected poison gas attack in a rebel-held town near Syria’s capital that Britain, France and others have “blindly” followed the US He says they use “slander, insults, hawkish rhetoric, blackmail, sanctions and threats to use force against a sovereign state.” Nebenzia said the US doesn’t understand what it’s doing now and warns that Washington is moving the world toward a “dangerous threshold.” He reiterated Russia’s contention that there was no chemical attack Sunday on Douma and said a fact-finding mission from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons should go to Damascus. The United States, France, Britain and six other countries requested the urgent meeting after toxic gas was allegedly used in the rebel-held town of Douma. Staffan de Mistura, UN and Arab League Envoy to Syria, said the UN is not in a position to verify as fact a chemical attack on Douma. Earlier on Monday, the White House had pointed the finger of blame for an alleged chemical attack on Syrian civilians at Tehran and Moscow, suggesting the Damascus regime could not have carried out such a strike alone. "Russia and Iran also bear responsibility for these acts since they would not be possible without their material support," said press secretary Sarah Sanders. The Syrian regime and its Russian and Iranian backers have denied using chemical weapons in a series of alleged attacks, including one on Saturday that killed at least 48 people in the rebel-held town of Douma.