Iranian President Massoud Peseschkian has accused the US, Israel and Europe of waging war against his country. “In my view, we are in an all-out war with the United States, Israel and Europe,” the website quoted him as saying Iran spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. According to Peseschkian, they all want to “bring Iran to its knees.”
This war is “worse than the one that Iraq waged against us,” said Peseschkian. He was referring to the Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988, in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed. The West accuses Iran of seeking a nuclear bomb. Iran has repeatedly made the allegations. Last summer there were European efforts to reach an agreement on the one reached in 2015 Nuclear agreement failed with Iran.
The nuclear agreement concluded in Vienna with the Iran was in years-long negotiations with the five UN veto powers USAChina, Russia, France and Great Britain as well as Germany followed. There should be restrictions and controls Development of Iranian nuclear weapons impede. Iran was permitted to use nuclear energy for civil purposes under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In 2018, during US President Donald Trump’s first term, the US withdrew from the agreement and subsequently reimposed sanctions on Iran.
IAEA estimates quantities of enriched uranium in Iran are many times higher than agreed
Iran, for its part, responded by gradually withdrawing from its commitments in the agreement and ramping up uranium enrichment. According to estimates by the IAEA, Iran now has an amount of enriched uranium that is many times greater than agreed in the nuclear agreement. Trump took new measures against Iran after the start of his second term in office – among other things, he imposed additional US sanctions, for example on oil purchases from Iran. The initiative of Germany, France and Great Britain was followed by far-reaching measures in September UN sanctions against Iran in force.
Israel and Iran had one in June twelve-day war against each other
led. They walked along also the USA and attacked Iranian nuclear facilities on Israel’s side. Iran does not recognize Israel and supports Islamist groups in the region, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
