US preventing efforts toward multipolarity: Deputy FM
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh said the United States is a “hegemonic power” that “bullies” other nations or uses “naked force” to block the global shift toward multipolarity.
Speaking to RT during an official visit to Moscow, he said many nations are striving for a multipolar system of equal participation, while the US and its allies and pursuing the opposite and are hindering that goal.
“There are contradictory trends happening in the world right now. There are those trying to establish a multipolar order, but unfortunately… the Americans are not sharing this idea. They want to be the sole hegemonic power over other countries,” he said.
Khatibzadeh cited decades of “illegal” US sanctions on Iran as a proof Washington believes it “can impose its will over other countries.”
“After the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979, the United States imposed the first sanctions against us, freezing assets and restricting trade with Iran, and later expanded these measures under the pretext of links to terrorism and Iran’s nuclear program. This is while we emphasize that Iran’s nuclear program is entirely peaceful,” he said.
Khatibzadeh said that many restrictions were lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal but the US reimposed the sanctions in 2018 after it unilaterally withdrew from the agreement.
He accused the US of undermining sovereignty and reshaping the global order through force, and denounced the US President Donald Trump’s campaign promise that “he’s coming for peace.”
“It is clear for everybody that it is not peace, it is hegemony, and it is not strength, it is use of naked force against others... Force will not bring peace. Radicalism only breeds more radicalism, and war brings more violence and bloodshed,” the diplomat said.