The West has been accusing Iran of trying to develop nuclear bombs for years. When presenting his foreign policy guidelines, the new President Peseschkian is trying to dispel these accusations.
According to the newly elected President Massoud Peseschkian, Iran is not building nuclear bombs. “I would like to stress that Iran’s defense doctrine does not include nuclear weapons,” the President wrote when presenting his foreign policy course in the “Tehran Times”. The USA should accept this reality and refrain from further insinuations.
In the 2015 Vienna nuclear agreement, Iran committed to severely restricting its nuclear program. In May 2018, then US President Donald Trump terminated the pact, which was intended to prevent the construction of Iranian nuclear bombs. He also tightened sanctions. In return, Tehran greatly expanded its uranium enrichment and restricted controls by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Israel warns about Iran’s nuclear program
Most recently, Israel’s Defense Minister Joav Galant warned again about Iran’s nuclear armament during a visit to the USA. “The greatest threat to the future of the world is Iran,” said Galant. Time is running out.
Israel sees Iran’s nuclear and missile program as its greatest existential threat.
Peseschkian made it clear that nothing will change in relations with the arch enemy. The president accused Israel of apartheid, war crimes, genocide and ethnic cleansing, among other things. Israel has repeatedly rejected these accusations in the past.
President is under high pressure of voters’ expectations
Together with his new top advisor and former chief diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif, Peseschkian hopes to resume nuclear negotiations and lift the sanctions that are crippling the Iranian economy. His voters also expect this from him. The Iranian economic crisis of the last five years needs a foreign policy solution. This would primarily be the resumption of nuclear negotiations.
Iran’s new president presents future foreign policy
Peseschkian will be sworn in in parliament on July 30th and will then officially begin his work. In his article entitled “Message to the world” he presented his planned foreign policy course. He is primarily concerned with good relations with the governments in the region and the Islamic states. He wants to continue intensive cooperation with Russia and China, while at the same time planning a “constructive dialogue” with European countries.
Apart from Croatia and Serbia, no European country has so far congratulated Peseschkian on his election victory. This has led to questions in the country as to whether the West is even interested in a dialogue with him.
Peseschkian does not want to rule out contacts with the arch-enemy USA, but for that to happen the USA would have to revise its hostile policies.
Source: Stern
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