Overview

• Iran’s Masud Pezeshkian told the General Assembly that Tehran has never sought nuclear weapons and never will.
• Pezeshkian accused the UK, France and Germany of trying to subjugate Iran with sanctions and false arguments, denouncing their snapback push as illegal.
• Iran’s foreign minister met IAEA chief Rafael Grossi and E3 delegations in New York this week, but the talks produced no breakthrough ahead of the deadline.
• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed talks with Washington as nonsense and said Iran will not abandon its uranium enrichment program.
• Pezeshkian condemned Israeli strikes in June as serious violations of international law and warned Iran would use more advanced missiles if Israel attacks again.