SAEDNEWS: Dr. Mohammad‑Hassan Qadiri Abiyaneh, Iran’s former ambassador to Australia and Mexico, insists Tehran can deter foes without a nuclear arsenal and lambasts weak overtures toward the United States.
According to Saed News, Dr. Mohammad‑Hassan Qadiri Abiyaneh, former ambassador to Australia and Mexico, delivered an uncompromising assessment of Iran’s strategic posture in an exclusive interview. He argued that negotiation “in its proper place, with clear objectives and capable negotiators” might be acceptable—but certainly not with the United States, which he deems a “deceptive” adversary, nor with a regime whose legitimacy Iran outright rejects.
Qadiri Abiyaneh dismissed calls to pursue a bomb, declaring that Iran “does not need the atom” to face its enemies. He warned that ceding the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes would condemn the country to daily blackouts—“two hours of power, twenty‑two hours of darkness,” he warned—mirroring Lebanon’s energy crisis. He ridiculed Western demands to relocate enrichment facilities to offshore islands, noting that shallow seabed sites would be trivially bombarded, whereas Iran’s deep installations at Natanz and Fordow endure.
Highlighting geopolitical hypocrisy, he asked why a non‑NPT member like Israel, boasting nearly a hundred warheads and barring inspections, can lecture Iran on enrichment. He affirmed that Tehran could, if necessary, strike U.S. or Israeli nuclear sites with its missile force—“we know exactly where their bombs are hidden.”
Turning to diplomacy, Qadiri Abiyaneh accused Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of lying about “snapback” sanctions in the JCPOA and lamented that dishonesty carries no penalty in Iran’s political culture. He decried recent timid statements by President Medicalian and UN envoy Saeed Khatibzadeh as “demeaning,” predicting that only a unified, dignified voice—one aligned with the Supreme Leader—can deter future aggression from Israel or the United States.
