Iran makes the US ugly by withdrawing from the nuclear agreement and the intermediate nuclear weapons treaty

Sep. 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The deputy representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in legal and international affairs, Reza Nayafi, reproached the United States on Monday for withdrawing two key treaties in recent years, such as the 2015 nuclear agreement and the Treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces ( INF) signed with Russia in 1987.

“They are concrete examples of how (the United States) fails to comply with its international obligations,” Najafi said during his speech at an event in New York for the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Najafi has argued that the path to nuclear disarmament is a new Strategic Reduction Treaty (START).

The United States announced in August 2019 its withdrawal from the Treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF), signed with Russia in 1987, arguing that Russia had been failing to comply with its commitments to manufacture missiles with a range of between 500 and 5,500 kilometers. , expressly vetoed in this treaty.

In this sense, Najafi explained that both the United States and the “Israeli regime” are “the main obstacle” to achieving nuclear disarmament worldwide. It must be remembered that Russia is the country that has the most nuclear warheads in storage, while the United States is the one that has deployed the most.

For its part, Israel, the eighth country with the most nuclear weapons after China, France, the United Kingdom, Pakistan and India, currently has 90 warheads, according to data compiled by the International Institute for Peace Studies in Stockholm.

Najafi has stressed, as reported by the IRNA news agency, that nuclear weapons are “a real threat to humanity and the risk of their use is today greater than ever”, although he has made it clear that Tehran does not consider the idea of reducing nuclear risk is equivalent to disarming countries.

The commemoration of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons was held at the United Nations headquarters in New York with the presence of heads of state, foreign ministers and senior officials from member states.