Iran’s president says US, Israeli attacks damaged international trust
By Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press
United Nations (AP) – Speaking to world leaders, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed American and Israeli attacks on Wednesday to “take a serious blow” to peace negotiations while Tehran for the reintegration of sanctions next week, unless a last -minute diplomatic breakthrough. A few hours before her speech, Iran’s Rial currency fell to a new hollow of all time.
Pezeshkian’s remarks in front of the United Nations General Assembly are the first of a global forum since the 12-day Israeli-Iran war in the summer which saw the assassination of many of the highest military and political leaders in the Islamic Republic and broke weeks of negotiations with the United States.
“Ladies and gentlemen, you all testified that, last June, my country was subject to a wild aggression and a blatant offense of the most basic principles of international law,” said the president, who within the political landscape of Iran is considered a moderate politician.
Pezeshkian is in New York while Tehran is trying to engage in last -minute interviews with European nations to stop the upcoming reimpections of the UN against Iran on its nuclear program. But even before landing in the United States, all diplomatic efforts provided for by Pezeshkian and the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, were overshadowed when the supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rejected direct nuclear discussion with America on Tuesday.
“The United States has announced the results of talks in advance,” he said. “The result is the closure of nuclear activities and enrichment. It is not a negotiation. It is a diktat, a taxation. “
A deadline arrives so that the sanctions resume
France, Germany and the United Kingdom have sparked the so -called “snapback mechanism” to restore sanctions – with the exception of a last -minute agreement – not to comply with the conditions for a 2015 nuclear agreement aimed at preventing Tehran from developing nuclear weapons.
“Snapback” was designed to be waterproof at the UN at the UN, it started a 30 -day window for the resumption of sanctions, which ends on Sunday, unless the West and Iran are reaching a diplomatic agreement.
The European nations have said that they would be willing to extend the deadline if Iran takes up direct negotiations with the United States on its nuclear program, allows UN nuclear inspectors to access its nuclear sites and represents more than 400 kilograms (880 pounds) of highly enriched uranium which, according to the UN surveillance dog. Iran is the only nation in the world that enriches uranium up to 60% – a short technical step in arms quality levels – which has no weapons program.
But Pezeshkian used his UN speech to criticize the E3 for having operated in “bad faith” for years to dictate Iranian compliance with an agreement that the United States abandoned in 2018. “They were wrongly presented as parts of good position to the agreement, and they challenged the sincere efforts of Iran as insufficient,” he said.
If no diplomatic agreement is reached this week, the “snapback” sanctions will automatically be “snapback” on Sunday. This would once again freeze Iranian assets abroad, interrupt weapons agreements with Tehran and penalize any development of the Iranian ballistic missile program, among other measures, by tightening the country’s shaken economy more.
The nuclear maneuver continues
Earlier this month, the United Nations nuclear custody and Iran signed an agreement mediated by Egypt to open the way to the resumption of cooperation, including the means of relaunching inspections of Iranian nuclear installations. However, this agreement has not yet completely taken root.
In July, Pezeshkian had signed a law adopted by the parliament of his country suspending any cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency. This followed the War of Israel at 12 days with Iran in June, during which Israel and the United States bombed Iranian nuclear sites.
Iran has long insisted that its program is peaceful, although the Western nations and the IAEA based in Vienna evaluate that Tehran had an active nuclear weapons program until 2003. Khamenei again declared Tuesday that Iran did not seek atomic bombs.
However, he added that “science will not be demolished by threats and bombings”.
Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran, and Jon Gambrell in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report.
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