Iran’s showdown with the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear activities, and clashing speeches over the bloody conflict shaking Syria dominated the opening of a summit in Tehran on Thursday. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei opened the session with a speech in which he insisted his country “is never seeking nuclear weapons” and accusing the U.N. Security Council of exerting an “overt dictatorship” under the sway of its Western permanent members, the United States, Britain and France.
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