Iran’s U.N. envoy sharply criticized new U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice on Thursday, saying she was making the “same tired” accusations against Iran that the previous U.S. administration had made.In a speech to the U.N. Security Council during a session on Iraq, Rice reiterated the U.S. position that Iran was supporting terrorism and attempting to develop nuclear weapons. Tehran denies both allegations.”It is unfortunate that, yet again, we are hearing the same tired, unwarranted and groundless allegations that used to be unjustifiably and futilely repeated by the previous administration,” Iran’s envoy Mohammad Khazaee said in a letter to the council’s president, Japanese Ambassador Yukio Takasu.”Instead of raising allegations against others, the United States had better take concrete and meaningful steps in correcting its past wrong policies and practices vis-a-vis other nations, including the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said.
