On Sunday, the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia declared that if Iran were to develop a working nuclear weapon, all bets would be out and the Gulf nations would take security measures.
Iran has declared that it reserves the right to respond by describing the sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU) and the UK regarding Mahsa Emini's death and the protests that started in the country afterward, as "baseless, unlawful and interference in its internal affairs".
Iran will not let an attack at a Shi'ite Muslim shrine that killed 15 people and was designed to destabilise the country go unanswered, the foreign minister said on Thursday.
Ebrahim Raisi struck a defiant tone at the UNGA by decrying "double standards" on human rights after the death of an Iranian woman in police custody that has sparked protests around Iran.
The German and French foreign ministries, condemned the seizure as a violation of international law, and called on Iran to immediately release the ships and their crews.
Syed Fakhar Imam on Tuesday welcomed the Iranian offer to waive off the tariff on all agricultural exports to Iran and said that Pakistan has immense export potential in citrus fruits, rice, mangoes, onion, potatoes, fisheries, and livestock.
The chief of IAEA, Rafel Grossi, was in Iran for talks on the nuclear dispute, days after the IAEA criticised Tehran's lack of cooperation. A point of contention this year has been the limits Iran has imposed on the IAEA's ability to monitor various of its nuclear facilities. It has refused to provide real-time footage from cameras and other surveillance tools that the UN agency has installed in these locations.
