Sanctions are ‘US means of warfare’, Iranian President at UN

Mr. Raisi described the presence of the USA within the Center East area as a “lack of rationality”, which has been detrimental to “oppressed individuals, from Palestine and Syria to Yemen and Afghanistan, in addition to the US taxpayers”. 

Sanctions towards Iran, he continued, “are the U.S.’s new means of warfare with the nations of the world”, and against the law towards humanity, particularly sanctions on drugs, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Regardless of these sanctions, added the Iranian President, the Tehran Analysis Reactor has produced radiopharmaceuticals – medicine containing radioactive isotopes – for a couple of million most cancers sufferers in Iran, made progress within the subject of biotechnology, and is manufacturing its personal COVID-19 vaccines. COVID-19, stated Mr. Raisi, is a wake-up name for the world, and a reminder that each one human beings are interdependent.

Turning to the specter of terrorism, Mr. Raisi warned that ISIS/ISIL wouldn’t be the final wave of extremism and declared that terrorism has its roots in crises corresponding to identification and economic system: “the truth that trendy lives have change into devoid of that means and spirituality in addition to the unfold of poverty, discrimination and oppression have helped the rise of terrorism”.

He pressured that “the occupier Zionist regime” was the organizer of the most important state terrorism whose agenda is to slaughter ladies and youngsters in Gaza and the West Financial institution. 

The so-called “deal of the century” failed similar to another deal pressured on Palestinians, he stated, and said: “There is just one answer: holding a referendum with the participation of all Palestinians of all religions and ethnicities together with Muslims, Christians and Jews.”

‘Nukes haven’t any place in our defence coverage’

With reference to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, recognized formally because the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which units out guidelines for monitoring Iran’s nuclear programme and paves the way in which for the lifting of UN sanctions, Mr. Raisi demanded the implementation of worldwide guidelines, and known as for all events to remain true to the deal.

The manufacturing and stockpiling of atomic weapons are forbidden in Iran by spiritual decree, Mr. Raisi declared: “nukes haven’t any place in our defence doctrine and deterrence coverage”, and Iran, concluded the President, is eager to have “large-scale political and financial cooperation and convergence with the remainder of the world. A brand new period has begun”.