Tehran, June 10: After the UN Security Council voted in favor of imposing fresh sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program, Iran’s parliament speaker censures the US for its stance on the issue.
“We are regretful that the US is playing a naive game in New York these days,” Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said in a meeting with his Omani counterpart Ali Al-Isai in Tehran on Wednesday.
Larijani added that the US game against Iran was being spearheaded by the “Zionist lobby.”
The Iranian Majlis official went on to praise Oman for supporting Iran’s nuclear rights, saying “Our Omani friends have a clear and accurate stance on Iran’s nuclear program.”
The remarks were made after the United States moved firmly away from the Obama administration’s promise of diplomatic engagement with Iran and pushed through a new round of UNSC sanctions against the country.
As a result, the 15-member UN Security Council voted in favor of slapping a fourth round of sanctions against Iran on Wednesday as Western powers accuse Tehran of seeking to build nuclear weapons despite repeated assurances from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the non-diversion of nuclear material in the country.
However, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran insists that it should be entitled to exercise its peaceful nuclear rights.
——Agencies