‘Bringing Iran and our people to their knees is a pipe dream’

‘The enemies are seeking to sanction Iran because the country refuses to bow and won’t accept humiliation,’ President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday, dismissing anti-Iran ambitions as a ‘mere pipe dream’. ‘Bringing Iran and our people to their knees is a pipe dream.’On Sunday, the United Nations Security Council restored the anti-Iran sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal. Iran does have a nuclear power programme but it is entirely for peaceful development of domestic energy. He emphasised that the Secretariat’s unilateral move exceeds its authority and trespasses into the domain of the Security Council. Speaking during a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Pezeshkian denounced the United States’ irrational behaviour toward Iran’s sincere diplomatic efforts on the nuclear issue.