The speech, delivered remotely in a pre-recorded video message late Tuesday, marked a significantly harsher tone than that of Raisi's predecessor.
President Joe Biden also delivered his first U.N. speech as president earlier in the day, but stressed his administration's willingness to rejoin the nuclear deal with "full compliance" if Tehran did the same.
The remarks are a clear turnaround from the Trump administration's Iran policy and represent a core foreign policy aim of the Biden White House: to revive the nuclear deal and a diplomatic legacy of the Obama years. Biden's stated aims have rattled Iran hawks, who warn against trusting the Iranian regime or allowing them to enrich uranium at all.
This all comes as Tehran increases its uranium stockpiling and enrichment in gradual breaches of the 2015 accord, which it says is in response to U.S. sanctions. Iran announced in late May that, a dramatic departure from the 3.67% level permitted under the JCPOA.
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