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By Syed Zafar Mehdi
President Ebrahim Raeisi's maiden address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday evening packed a powerful punch, unlike anything seen before, reaffirming his reputation as a no-nonsense international leader and statesman who means business.
Iranian president’s speech Tuesday evening will certainly go down as one of the most power-packed, eloquent speeches at the UN General Assembly, which came barely hours after US President Joe Biden’s lackluster show, in which he repeated the same hollow promise of returning to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, without making the first move of course.
President Raeisi, who took the oath of office early August following a thumping win in the June presidential vote, seized the opportunity of directly addressing the world leaders for the first time and reminded them that the American war machine has run out of fuel. He showed mirror to the ‘naked emperor’ and dared to lay bare his vanity and self-centeredness.
Referring to two tragic incidents that shook the world this year – the insurrection at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 and desperate Afghans falling to their deaths from a US aircraft in Kabul on Aug. 15 – Iran’s president said the events bear a message that the US’ hegemonic project has no credibility and no takers, both at home and abroad. Both incidents will haunt the haughty American rulers forever.
As President Raeisi noted, the foreign occupiers did not “withdraw” but were expelled from the war-ravaged South Asian country, and those who pay the price of such “irrationality” are people from Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Palestine, as well as the American tax-payers.
Iran’s president, in his characteristic straightforward style, slammed the US for using sanctions as a tool to subdue the nations that refuse to be subservient to the American empire. Calling the brutal, crippling sanctions as “crimes against humanity”, especially amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, President Raeisi reminded the international community that sanctions against Iran didn’t start with the country’s nuclear program but go back to 1951 when the Americans and the British together backed a military coup against a democratically-elected government in Tehran.
Iran’s president signed off by extending a hand of friendship to all the countries, especially countries in the neighborhood, for “comprehensive political and economic cooperation”.
“A new era has begun,” President Raeisi announced, saying Iran is ready to play its part “for a better world”. But will the world play the ball? That remains a question.
President Ebrahim Raeisi's maiden address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday evening packed a powerful punch, unlike anything seen before, reaffirming his reputation as a no-nonsense international leader and statesman who means business.
Iranian president’s speech Tuesday evening will certainly go down as one of the most power-packed, eloquent speeches at the UN General Assembly, which came barely hours after US President Joe Biden’s lackluster show, in which he repeated the same hollow promise of returning to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, without making the first move of course.
President Raeisi, who took the oath of office early August following a thumping win in the June presidential vote, seized the opportunity of directly addressing the world leaders for the first time and reminded them that the American war machine has run out of fuel. He showed mirror to the ‘naked emperor’ and dared to lay bare his vanity and self-centeredness.
Referring to two tragic incidents that shook the world this year – the insurrection at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 and desperate Afghans falling to their deaths from a US aircraft in Kabul on Aug. 15 – Iran’s president said the events bear a message that the US’ hegemonic project has no credibility and no takers, both at home and abroad. Both incidents will haunt the haughty American rulers forever.
As President Raeisi noted, the foreign occupiers did not “withdraw” but were expelled from the war-ravaged South Asian country, and those who pay the price of such “irrationality” are people from Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Palestine, as well as the American tax-payers.
Iran’s president, in his characteristic straightforward style, slammed the US for using sanctions as a tool to subdue the nations that refuse to be subservient to the American empire. Calling the brutal, crippling sanctions as “crimes against humanity”, especially amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, President Raeisi reminded the international community that sanctions against Iran didn’t start with the country’s nuclear program but go back to 1951 when the Americans and the British together backed a military coup against a democratically-elected government in Tehran.
Iran’s president signed off by extending a hand of friendship to all the countries, especially countries in the neighborhood, for “comprehensive political and economic cooperation”.
“A new era has begun,” President Raeisi announced, saying Iran is ready to play its part “for a better world”. But will the world play the ball? That remains a question.