UNITED NATIONS: Iran’s chairman told the United Nations on Wednesday that his country wasn’t seeking an infinitesimal armament and demanded the US guarantee it would abide by any revived nuclear deal.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran isn’t seeking to make or gain nuclear munitions and similar munitions have no place in our doctrine,” President Ebrahim Raisi told the UN General Assembly.
Raisi addressed the world body just hours before US President Joe Biden was set to take the stage, amid a swell of pressure over an Iran nuclear deal that remains blocked despite months of accommodations, and mounting pressure over the country’s mortal rights record.
“All of this is taking place in a terrain where countries themselves that seek to show us unjustly as a trouble keep pursuing nuclear munitions and development and testing,” Raisi said, claiming there’s a “double standard” when it comes to discussion of Iran’s nuclear wisdom capacity as well as women’s rights.
He denounced the lack of pressure on Israel, an undeclared nuclear power, saying that Iran has complied with transnational commitments.
“We all know that it’s only for mortal and peaceful trials,” Raisi said of his country’s nuclear program. “But some countries are keen on portraying this as a trouble, in order to sweep under the hairpiece what they should correctly face themselves, which should be de-nuclearisation”.
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The West has been calling on Tehran to revive the 2015 nuclear accord — four times after Biden’s White House precursor Donald Trump pulled out of the deal and re-imposed major warrants on Iran.
Raisi raised mistrustfulness about the Biden administration’s sincerity. “ They keep repeating the same stories of the history which puts a great deal of mistrustfulness on their true commitment to return to the agreement, ” he said.
“Can we truly trust — without guarantees and assurances — that they will decide to live up to that commitment?”
French President Emmanuel Macron met Raisi in New York on Tuesday, saying subsequently that “the ball is in Iran’s court”. Before Wednesday, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said that Tehran should “abandon their nuclear munitions bournes” and engage further laboriously with the transnational community.
