Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stressed that no country can claim that it can decide the fate of the whole world.
In an event in Mashhad, northeast Iran, to commemorate the Khorasan Daily, Zarif said the notion of being a superpower is weakening.
“Today’s world is not of the kind that one country could decide for a group of other states,” he said, according to Mehr news agency, adding that power has been distributed among different countries and it is not exclusive anymore.
“Our greatest honor is that no one can tell us ‘if I don’t support you for a week, you will be speaking Arabic, Russian, or English,’” the top Iranian diplomat said, highlighting that this independence is not a minor achievement at all.
He went on to say that Iran relies on its domestic capabilities for ensuring security and promoting industrial development.
Elsewhere, pointing to the power of social media, Zarif said that the fact that Iranians use social networks to talk about their demands across the world “is not a threat, but an opportunity for the country.”
Source: Iranian media
