Friday, 23 October 2020_Iran’s foreign minister says the United States' unwillingness to renew the START III Treaty on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms testifies to the fact that this country is not interested in promoting global stability.
Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a Thursday tweet, which he posted in Russian, that the unwillingness of the United States to reach an agreement with Russia on this issue is also evidence to Washington’s “great desire ... to start an arms race in the world.”
Iran’s top diplomat noted that such a treaty “is one of the most important treaties in ensuring international security and arms control, which ends in February 2021.”
Отсутствие желания у США продлевать Договор об ограничении наступательных стратегических вооружений СНВ-3, являющийся одним из самых важных договоров в обеспечении международной безопасности и контроля над вооружениями, срок которого закончится в феврале 2021 года,
— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) October 22, 2020
"The lack of desire on the part of the United States to renew the START-3 Treaty on the Limitation of Offensive Strategic Arms, which is one of the most important treaties in ensuring international security and arms control and ends in February 2021, is another vivid example of the lack of interest in the United States in global stability and testifies to the great desire of this country to start an arms race in the world," read the tweet.