Iranian president: "No limitations to peaceful nuclear technology"

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Wednesday his country did not want a nuclear weapon, but that it would accept no limits on its civilian nuclear program as he addressed the U.N. General Assembly. "For our country, peaceful nuclear technology is part of our inherent progress," he said. "Iran does not accept for nuclear technology to be at the exclusive disposal of some, of a handful. We will not bow our head and give up the right that is inherently ours. We say it clearly: No nuclear weapons and no limitations to peaceful nuclear technology." President Pezeshkian also said Iran would not allow the Strait of Hormuz, which has been at the heart of the military standoff, to be used for aggression against his country. "We cannot let some have free access and bolster their interests from the waterway, while at the same time using that waterway to impose their aggression upon us," he said. Iran has restricted shipping traffic through the waterway, driving up global oil prices,