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By Parisa Hafezi and Steve Holland
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States and Iran clashed over security and human rights on Wednesday, with Iran’s president promising nothing easy for the United States to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and the U. S. president vowing that Tehran would never get the atomic bomb.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi struck a provocative tone at the UN General Assembly by denouncing “double standards” on human rights after the death of an Iranian in police custody sparked protests across Iran.
Raisi also said Tehran needs former US President Donald Trump to be tried for the 2020 killing of Iran’s Quds Force commander-in-chief Qassem Soleimani, a US drone strike in Iraq, showing a photo of the general.
“There is a wonderful and serious will to resolve all the messes to revive the (2015 nuclear) deal,” Raisi told the UN General Assembly. “We need one thing: respect for commitments. “
Speaking later, US President Joe Biden reiterated his willingness to revive the nuclear pact Iran agreed to scale back its atomic program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.
In 2018, Trump withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal and unilaterally reimposed sanctions hampering Iran’s economy.
A year later, Tehran responded by violating the deal’s nuclear limits and reviving U. S. fears. The US, Israel and Persian Gulf countries would simply seek an atomic weapon, an ambition Iran denies.
“We have before us the party of the withdrawal of the United States (from the agreement),” Raisi said. “With this party and perspective, can we forget the promise factor for a lasting deal?”
Raisi mentioned Iran’s call for the closure of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigations into uranium lines discovered at 3 undeclared Iranian sites, a main impediment to reviving the deal.
U. S. and European officials have said investigations can only be closed if Iran provides acceptable answers to the U. N. nuclear watchdog, whose leader, Rafael Grossi, said the unrest could be ruled out.
‘DOUBLE STANDARDS’
Raisi also sought to deflect complaints over the death last week of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by police in Tehran for “inappropriate dress. “An economy reeling from sanctions.
At least seven other people were killed in the protests, some calling for “regime change. “
“The Islamic Republic considers the popular double of some governments in the human rights box as the ultimate in institutionalizing human rights violations,” Raisi said in a text of his speech released through his office.
He said this had led to “various positions on an incident being investigated at Array. . . Iran,” an obvious reference to Amini’s case, and “the silence of death” over allegations of human rights violations in the West.
“Human rights belong to everyone, but unfortunately they are violated by many governments,” he added, referring to the discovery of anonymous graves of other indigenous people in Canada, the suffering of Palestinians and photographs of young immigrants caged in the United States. . States.
Biden has expressed a willingness to return to the non-transparent agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and has made clear U. S. sympathy for protesters in Iran.
“While the United States is in a position to mutually return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action if Iran fulfills its obligations, the United States is clear: We will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon,” he said, repeating a long position in the United States.
“We stand with the brave citizens of Iran who are protesting right now to secure their human rights,” Biden added.
(Reporting by Parisa Hafezi and Steve Holland; writing by Parisa Hafezi and Arshad Mohammed; editing by Andrew Cawthorne, Jonathan Oatis and Grant McCool)