China maintains that resolving the Iran nuclear issue peacefully through political and diplomatic means is the only viable path, and that Beijing opposes the use of force, sanctions, or pressure, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday.
Lebanon's Hezbollah in a statement on Tuesday condemned the snapback of United Nations sanctions against Tehran, describing it as a result of collusion between European countries, the United States, and Israel.
The statement described the Europeans' move to trigger the snapback mechanism as "part of the war that the United States and Israel have launched against the Islamic Republic."
"The war's goal was not merely the destruction of Iran’s nuclear capability — as the aggressors claimed — but in fact aimed at overthrowing the Islamic system and creating chaos and instability in Iran.”
Hezbollah reaffirmed its support for the Islamic Republic and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, stressing: “With God’s help, and by relying on the wisdom and courage of its leadership and the awareness and solidarity of its proud people, Iran will be able to withstand this new aggression.”
“They (Western parties) thought the monster they created out of the snapback would frighten us so much that we’d be ready to give away any concession," Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi told reporters on the last day of his New York visit.
"Certainly, that’s not the case. We have already lived under the very resolutions they’re now trying to revive. People will see that no more sanctions will be imposed beyond what the United States has already enforced, and that it won’t have an extraordinary impact. It will only carry political and strategic effects.”
