Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi says there are a number of major problems facing today’s world, all of which stem from unilateralism.
Raisi made the remarks on Monday upon his arrival at New York to take part in the 77th annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.
Asked about the subject matters that the president will address during his visit and address to the UN session, the Iranian chief executive said he will use the opportunity to explain the Islamic Republic’s standpoints and perspectives.
“The United Nations should be truly an organization for all nations. It must not be an organization for powerful governments,” Iran’s president said.
“We are now faced with a host of global problems and issues, which can be naturally discussed in such meetings to find solutions,” Raisi said.
He noted that since such problems are general problems affecting the entire world, their solutions must be found through collective wisdom.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Iranian president reflected on the issue of unilateral sanctions imposed on countries.
Raisi described sanctions as a “weapon in the hands of big powers, which they use in order to apply pressure on [other] nations.”
Iran’s president said such unilateral coercive measures are at odds with “peace, calm, and security,” and mostly harm nations.
Raisi’s remarks came as he is scheduled to address the world body amid the United States’ ongoing sanctions against Iran, which Washington returned after leaving a historic 2015 nuclear agreement between the Islamic Republic and others, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The US retains the coercive economic measures, although it is bound by an International Court of Justice ruling to lift those bans that prevent exports of humanitarian goods to the Islamic Republic.
“Naturally, other nations [which are subjected to unilateral sanctions] will have to resort to countermeasures,” Raisi said, referring to the countermeasures that the Islamic Republic has been employing in reaction to the sanctions.
Source: Iranian media (edited by Al-Manar English Website)
