But Dujarric said Guterres had raised the issues with senior Iranian officials in other meetings.
"I can tell you that in other meetings with senior Iranian leaders, in New York and other places, the secretary-general has raised those issues directly," Dujarric said.
"We have, from this podium, on behalf of the secretary-general, condemned in no uncertain terms the use of the death penalty in Iran, as we stand against the death penalty in every country."
The exchange comes as human rights organizations report that Tehran's crackdown has continued months after the January demonstrations.
Iran International reported Aug. 7, citing rights groups, that more than 60,000 people were detained across Iran after the protests, while some independent sources put the number of people summoned, detained or interrogated above 100,000.
In Ardabil province alone, roughly 800 people were arrested during the protests, according to the report, which cited the Human Rights Activists News Agency, or HRANA. As of early August, at least 54 remained in Ardabil Prison, including 29 who had not yet received a hearing.
New figures released Tuesday show the punishments have continued. In its involved capital punishment. Iran International Seyed Ahmad Seyedabdollahi, a 32-year-old psychologist whose case Fox News Digital reported in August.
Seyedabdollahi posted an English-language video Jan. 4 appealing directly to President Donald Trump to support Iranian protesters. He was arrested 10 days later and ultimately sentenced to seven months in prison and barred from government and public services for five years.
His relatives told Fox News Digital that Iranian authorities later pressured him to record another video insulting Trump and Americans. Fox News Digital could not independently verify those specific demands, butsolitary confinement and torture.France planned to address Iranians detained after the protests and reports of torture and executions during its presidency, Bonnafont said the council's central focus on Iran this month would be Tehran's nuclear program but stressed that those discussions would not take place "in a vacuum."
"You referred to this matter with the situation of the civilian population in Iran," Bonnafont told Fox News Digital, according to a translation of his remarks. "They are the victims of the choices made by the Iranian authorities for years now, with these episodes of mass repression to which you referred."
Morad Tahbaz, an Iranian American environmentalist who spent years imprisoned in Iran before his release in a 2023 prisoner exchange with the United States, previously described to Fox News Digital the conditions detainees can face inside the Iranian prison system.
Tahbaz said he spent four months alone in a small cell under a bright light that remained on 24 hours a day. He was allowed out twice a day for about 10 minutes and was blindfolded whenever he left the cell.
He described the IRGC intelligence facility at Tehran's Evin Prison as "probably the harshest and toughest imprisonment that any prisoner will go through."
Tahbaz said one of the most difficult aspects of being held by Iran was knowing that even the end of a prison sentence did not necessarily mean freedom.
"When you are a hostage … [you don't know that], at the end of your sentence, they'll necessarily let you go," Tahbaz told Fox News Digital. "They'll just come up with another charge to keep you there for as long as you're of value to them."