Iran disputes Macron’s assertions about its nuclear programme
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Sulaiman
- . February 4, 2023
- . Update: February 4, 2023 4:22 pm
The recent allegations made by French President Emmanuel Macron on Tehran’s nuclear programme have been denied by the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry as being unconstructive.
Following a meeting with the Israeli prime minister on Thursday in Paris, Macron criticised Iran’s nuclear programme for its “headlong rush.”
The French president, according to the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Nasser Kanaani, criticises Iran’s peaceful nuclear efforts at a time when Israel is believed to possess dozens of nuclear warheads but does not accept any international supervision.
Israel is the greatest threat to regional and global peace and security, he claimed, given its history of armed aggression and occupation.
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The bare fact that Kanaani met with the prime minister of a government “which is known as the symbol of the ominous phenomenon of organised terror, violence, carnage, and displacement of Palestinians deserve to be deplored and censured,” according to Kanaani, is reason enough to condemn and denounce it.
The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry emphasised that instead of expressing concern over Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities, which are governed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the French side should inform the world about how Israel obtained nuclear weapons.
Kanaani urged French officials to cease further eroding bilateral ties and fix “their incorrect approach” by returning to the idea of respect for one another.
