Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian flew to Turkey on Wednesday for the UN climate summit in Antalya, firing off an angry message on the way that accused the United States of trying to “pursue diplomacy through threats” by invoking the massive “Mother of All Bombs.”
“They waged war, claiming to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. Then they used the PrSM missile in Lamerd for the first time. Now they invoke the ‘Mother of All Bombs’ to pursue diplomacy through threats. No contradiction, but a disgrace. Who threatens global peace and security?” Pezeshkian wrote on X.
The Lamerd reference is to a strike on the southern Iranian city at the start of the war on February 28, which Tehran blames on an American Precision Strike Missile. The “Mother of All Bombs” is the U.S. military’s 21,600-pound GBU-43 air-burst bomb. In October, it was reported that the White House had prepared options to use it against Iranian targets, and this week Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. is closely monitoring Iran’s nuclear sites and is ready to strike again if Tehran resumes threatening activity.
Before leaving Tehran, Pezeshkian said that during the trip “information will be presented on the damage inflicted on Iran’s environment by the United States and Israel.” He said he is scheduled to meet more than ten heads of state and senior officials on the sidelines of the summit, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and described relations between Iran and Turkey as being “at a very good level.”
The Iranian regime has been building a legal campaign around the same theme. On Tuesday, Iranian Vice President Shina Ansari, who heads the country’s environment department, said Tehran had finished documenting environmental damage from the 12-day war and is now documenting damage from the current war, with plans to pursue the cases in international forums. She branded the bombing of fuel depots in Tehran and Karaj as “ecocide.”
Pezeshkian was seen off at the airport by First Vice President Mohammadreza Aref and several cabinet ministers for the two-day visit. The COP31 conference runs in Antalya from November 9 to 20, with 71 countries represented at the level of presidents or prime ministers.
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