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Iran’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country is not building nuclear weapons, as he presented his foreign policy ideas in an editorial on Friday. Writing in the Tehran Times, Pezeshkian reiterated that “Iran’s defense doctrine does not include nuclear weapons,” adding that the United States should lift harmful economic sanctions. Pezeshkian, widely seen as a moderate reformist, won presidential elections in July after his predecessor Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash in May. In the editorial, Pezeshkian said his first foreign policy priority is to secure a ceasefire in …

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