DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the reimposition of global sanctions over Iran’s nuclear programme is “not like the sky is falling” as he headed home on Saturday from New York where he failed to convince Western powers to delay the move.

Iran’s immediate reaction to the resumption of United Nations sanctions came with the announcement earlier on Saturday it was recalling its ambassadors to Britain, France and Germany for consultations, but it has warned a harsher response awaits.

“It is not like the sky is falling. If we are weak they will crush us. But if we are united, there is no fear from this crisis,” Pezeshkian told Iranian state television before leaving New York, where he was attending the United Nations General Assembly.

All U.N. sanctions on Iran are

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