🔶 Iraqi Foreign Minister calls Guterres after arriving in New York

According to a report by Agence France-Presse, Abbas Araqchi, the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic, who has arrived in New York along with a diplomatic delegation, spoke by phone with Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, after his arrival.

According to this report, Araqchi also said to Iranian journalists in the course of the conversation: “Our most important objective is to make use of an important international platform to defend the legitimacy, rights, and interests of the Iranian people.”

Ismail Baqai, the spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic, also referred to Araqchi as “Head of Iran’s diplomatic delegation” at the United Nations General Assembly in a post on the X network, while mentioning Araqchi’s arrival in New York.