Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian received credentials of ten new foreign ambassadors to the Islamic Republic, telling them that his administration is seeking to promote consensus inside the country and friendly interactions with nations across the world.
The president received the letters of credence of the envoys during separate meetings held on Tuesday. The foreign diplomats included the ambassadors of Armenia, Turkmenistan, Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Cuba, Kuwait, and Mauritania.
“The 14th administration of Iran is seeking to strengthen ties with other countries through dialog. We also respect Ireland for its supportive stance toward the Palestinian people, and we hope that the Zionist regime’s crimes against the defenseless people of Gaza come to an end as soon as possible and aid delivery begins,” Pezeshkian told Irish Ambassador Lisha Teresa Moore Dorichek.
Israel’s war on Gaza was also one of the topics the president discussed with the new British ambassador, Hugo Shorter.
Pezeshkian criticized Western countries’ inaction on the Zionist regime’s “unprecedented crimes” against innocent women and children in Gaza. He said the inaction is totally unacceptable and unjustifiable, considering Western states’ claims that they champion human rights.
More worse is that the US and some European countries send weapons to “this criminal regime,” added Pezeshkian, while emphasizing that Iran seeks to establish tranquility, security and peace in the West Asia region and elsewhere in the world.
President Pezeshkian also touched upon Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
He said that Iran, based on a religious decree by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has no intention of using its nuclear capabilities in the military field.
The president referred to the 2018 US withdrawal from the JCPOA and the failure of the European parties to the deal to compensate for the pullout despite Iran’s living up to its commitments, saying that the Islamic Republic is ready for the return of all parties to the accord and fulfilling mutual obligations.
In his meeting with the new Dutch ambassador Emiel de Bont, Pezeshkian said that his public stance has focused on forging consensus inside and interaction with the world even during the presidential election campaign in Iran.
“The Zionist regime however tried to obstruct the progress of that approach since my inaugural day and drag us to war by assassinating Mr. Haniyeh, the official guest of the Islamic Republic,” the president said in reference to the July 31 assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh who attended Pezeshkian’s inauguration ceremony in Tehran a day earlier.
In his meeting with the Kenyan, Mauritanian and Sierra Leonean ambassadors, the Iranian president emphasized the importance of further expansion of his country’s ties with the three African countries.
Pezeshkian also discussed expansion of Iran’s ties with the new ambassadors of Turkmenistan and Armenia, which are both neighbors of the Islamic Republic. He said that boosting relations with neighbors is the strategic policy of Iran.
During talks with the new Cuban envoy Jorge Fernando Lefebre Nicolas, President Pezeshkian said both Iran and Cuba have paid and continue to pay prices over their fight against imperialism, adding that independent countries can support each other in resolving the problems they face.
The Iranian president, in his meeting with the new Kuwaiti ambassador Mishal Ahmad Al-Mansour, emphasized the need for forging brotherly ties among Islamic countries.
All the foreign envoys expressed their countries’ readiness to expand relations with the Islamic Republic.