Iran has denied any involvement in the recent attacks against the US-occupied military bases in Iraq, but at the same time denounced the American airstrikes against Iraqi forces as a violation of international law.

Iran’s UN ambassador rejects the US claim of exercising its ‘right to self-defense’ by murdering General Soleimani in Iraq early last year.

The Iranian envoy to the UN says there is no need for negotiations over America’s return to the 2015 nuclear deal, and that in order for Washington to secure a return to the accord, it must lift its anti-Iran sanctions within the next three months.

The Iranian UN envoy says fair distribution of vaccines among all nations and removal of sanctions are key to battle COVID-19.

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has slammed the US sanctions against the Syrian nation as “political, unlawful, and inhumane”, calling for the immediate removal of those bans.

Iran has once again rejected any proposal for the renegotiation of the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Iran says the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), the financial mechanism proposed by Europeans to enable Iran to get round US sanctions, has failed to prove itself effective in the past two years.