Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian says his country has no
intention of building a nuclear bomb.
While addressing the UN General Assembly on Wednesday in New
York, Pezeshkian stressed that Iran has never sought to build a nuclear bomb.
“The bedrock of all divine religions and of the human conscience
is this golden maxim: that which you would not approve for yourself, do not
approve for others,” he said.
In June, the United States bombed three nuclear sites in
Iran in what was part of actions to deflate the Middle East’s nuclear capacity.
US President Donald Trump, in an early social media post,
said the military struck the nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
Iran retaliated by launching missile strikes on US forces at
the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
Speaking on the attacks, Pezeshkian said Iran “was subjected
to a savage aggression in flagrant contravention of the most elementary
principles of international law”.
“They were happening precisely at a time when we were
treading the path of diplomatic negotiations and constituted a grave betrayal
of diplomacy and a subversion of efforts towards the establishment of stability
and peace,” the Iranian president said.
He warned that a failure to “confront such perilous breaches
of international norms” would risk a repetition in the wider world.
Pezeshkian also spoke out against what he called “the
ludicrous and delusional scheme of a Greater Israel”, encompassing “vast swaths
of the region”.
He said Iran should instead be surrounded with powerful
neighbours fighting against a grand project that imposed genocide, destruction
and instability upon the region.
“In such a strong region, slaughter and bloodshed shall find
no place,” he said.
“It is for this very reason that my country has for many
years been among the staunchest advocates of establishing a region free of
weapons of mass destruction,” he said.
“Yet those who themselves possess the largest nuclear
arsenals and who, in flagrant breach of the NPT (non-proliferation treaty),
make their weapons even deadlier and more destructive have for years subjected
our people to pressures on the basis of spurious allegations.”
The president’s speech came after he addressed the UN
security council meeting last week, where members rejected a resolution to lift
sanctions against Iran imposed prior to a 2015 agreement on its nuclear
programme.
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