Sanctions are “US way of war”, Iranian president says at UN |

Mr. Raisi called the US presence in the Middle East region a “lack of rationality,” which has been detrimental to “the oppressed peoples, from Palestine and Syria to Yemen and Afghanistan, as well. than American taxpayers “.

Sanctions against Iran, he continued, “are America’s new way of waging war on the nations of the world,” and a crime against humanity, especially sanctions against medicine, during the COVID-19[female[feminine pandemic.

Despite these sanctions, the Iranian president added, Tehran’s research reactor has produced radiopharmaceuticals – drugs containing radioactive isotopes – for more than a million cancer patients in Iran, has made progress in the field of biotechnology and manufactures its own COVID-19 vaccines. COVID-19, Mr. Raisi said, is a wake-up call to the world and a reminder that all human beings are interdependent.

Turning to the threat of terrorism, Mr Raisi warned that ISIS / ISIL would not be the latest wave of extremism and said terrorism has its roots in crises such as identity and the economy: “the fact that modern lives have become meaningless and spirituality as well as the spread of poverty, discrimination and oppression have contributed to the rise of terrorism ”.

He pointed out that “the occupying Zionist regime” was the organizer of the world’s largest state terrorism whose agenda is to slaughter women and children in Gaza and the West Bank.

The so-called “deal of the century” failed like any other deal forced on the Palestinians, he said, and said: “There is only one solution: to hold a referendum with the participation of all. Palestinians of all religions and ethnicities, including Muslims, Christians and Jews.

“Nuclear weapons have no place in our defense policy”

Regarding the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, officially known as Common Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which sets the rules for monitoring Iran’s nuclear program and paves the way for the lifting of UN sanctions, Raisi demanded the implementation of international rules and called on all parties to stay true to the agreement.

The production and stockpiling of atomic weapons is banned in Iran by religious decree, Mr. Raisi said: “nuclear weapons have no place in our defense doctrine and our policy of deterrence,” and Iran, concluded the president, wishes to have “a large-scale policy. and economic cooperation and convergence with the rest of the world. A new era has begun ”.