The Iranian foreign minister has censured the new European sanctions against the country’s airlines and shipping, stressing that any anti-Tehran move at the upcoming meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will further complicate the situation regrading the Islamic Republic’s peaceful nuclear program.
According to The Iran Project, Araghchi also vehemently rebuked the decision of the three countries of Germany, France and the United Kingdom to present an anti-Iran resolution at the meeting of the IAEA's Board of Governors on Wednesday.
“This measure by the three European countries is in blatant contravention of the positive atmosphere created in the interaction between Iran and the Agency,” the Iranian foreign minister said. “It will only make matters more complicated.”
Pointing to the regional developments and the continuation of the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon and the regime’s genocide in Gaza, Araghchi censured support for Tel Aviv’s atrocities and called for an urgent action by the influential parties to force Israel to stop the aggression.
The phone conversation comes as a senior Western diplomat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed to the AP that the United Kingdom, France and Germany, with support from the US, are going ahead with a resolution against Tehran at this week’s IAEA Board of Governors meeting.
The resolution will take to task Iran for what it claims to be lack of cooperation with the IAEA in the country’s nuclear program