Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says that his country will not leave the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty even if UN sanctions come back into force as expected this weekend.
“We do not intend to leave the NPT,” Pezeshkian tells reporters on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, warning that foreign powers were seeking “a superficial pretext to set the region ablaze.”
Pezeshkian also says that US President Donald Trump’s administration did not show sincerity in nuclear talks, including negotiations before an Israeli strike.
“The wall of mistrust between us and the Americans is quite high. We came to understandings a number of times but they were never taken seriously by the Americans,” he adds.
Russia meanwhile declares there will be “no snapback” of UN sanctions on Iran even after the failure by Moscow and Beijing at the Security Council to stave off the measures.
“There has been no snapback and there will be no snapback — any moves to resuscitate anti-Iranian Security Council resolutions, which were in effect prior to 2015, are null and void,” Russia’s deputy UN ambassador Dmitry Polyansky says.
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