The head of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations of the Islamic Republic of Iran said that the recent riots in Iran are a hybrid war that has been orchestrated by the western political apparatuses, the Iran Press reports. 

Speaking as one of the keynote speakers at the 3rd edition of Tehran Dialogue Forum (TDF 2022), Kamal Kharazi head of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations of Iran, called the recent riots in Tehran the hybrid war which has been orchestrated by the political and the intelligence apparatuses of the foreign countries.

Iranian former Foreign Minister further said that the whole process had been pre-planned, and it was a hybrid war in that all the aspects, including the social and political, were involved.

Kamal Kharazi, former Iranian FM, stressed that Iran has aimed for a zone free of nuclear weapons for many years, and Israeli atomic weapons must be destroyed and joined to safeguards.

" We gained full access to nuclear technology thanks to the efforts of our scientists. When I was the foreign minister, they talked about concrete guarantees that we should give concrete guarantees that we will not pursue nuclear weapons.

"According to them, the objective determination was enrichment. With the resistance of Iran and the efforts of our scientists, we reached the point where we had 19 thousand centrifuges in rotation, and the Westerners were forced to negotiate with Iran, and the JCPOA was negotiated and signed, and the Westerners started not fulfilling their obligations. Until the United States withdrew from the JCPOA."

Iran's Former Minister of Foreign Affairs stressed: "Today, we still have high capabilities and we are producing advanced centrifuges day by day, but we are not trying to produce bombs. We have the ability, but we do not have the principle of producing bombs."