Iran Affirms Commitment to Nuclear Peace at UN General Assembly

President Masoud Pezeshkian declared at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that Iran has never pursued the development of a nuclear bomb and has no intention of doing so in the future.

“We are not pursuing nuclear weapons, and this is a principled belief backed by a religious decree from the Leader. As a result, we have never sought weapons of mass destruction, and we never will do so,” Pezeshkian said on Thursday, The Caspian Post reports, citing IRNA.

In a region where the true source of instability is the Israeli regime, it is Iran that faces sanctions, he said, adding that there is a proverb in Persian that goes, “A blacksmith committed a crime in Balkh, but they executed a coppersmith in Shushtar.”

“Someone disrupts the region elsewhere, yet others are punished.”

Pezeshkian said that the moral foundation of all religions and human conscience is the golden rule - not to wish for others what one would not wish for oneself - but argued that the world had failed to uphold it.