Iran Slams G7’s Hypocritical Statement on Nuclear Issue

In a statement released on Thursday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said the G7 member states’ welcoming of the unlawful and unjustified action by the three European countries and the US to revive the terminated Security Council resolutions against Iran—an action carried out through abuse of the JCPOA’s dispute settlement mechanism and without any legal or logical basis—amounts to their support for a measure that blatantly violates international law.

He stressed that the position taken by the G7 cannot in any way alter the illegal and unjustified nature of that action.

Recalling the Israeli regime’s military aggression against Iran during diplomatic negotiations—with the coordination and complicity of the US—followed by America’s direct attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the spokesperson dismissed as utterly false the G7’s claim that the three European countries and the US have repeatedly put forward diplomatic solutions in good faith to prevent the snapback and to reach a comprehensive and durable negotiated outcome.

He underscored that it was in fact the United States which, by its unlawful and unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA in 2018 and its subsequent persistent violations of international law regarding Iran and its obstruction of the deal’s implementation, bears full responsibility for the current situation.

The three European countries, by following Washington, failing to uphold their obligations, and supporting the US and the Israeli regime in their military aggression against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities, not only committed “material non-performance” of their JCPOA commitments, but also deliberately disregarded all of Iran’s initiatives and efforts at diplomacy, Baqaei underlined.

He further pointed to the G7 countries’ indifference toward the genocidal Zionist regime’s nuclear arsenal, describing their stance on non-proliferation as hypocritical.

The Iranian spokesman emphasized that, given their duplicitous and irresponsible conduct with respect to the rule of law and international peace and security, these seven countries lack any moral authority to lecture others./tasnim