 In a speech at Harvard University in 2010, the Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi justified Iran's nuclear program as peaceful and argued that Iran had "no justification" to pursue nuclear weapons, citing the lack of any immediate threat to Iran, and urged Iran to "embrace overtures" from the United States.Qureshi also observed that Iran had signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and should respect the treaty.Iran and Pakistan have been described as competitors for influence in the Middle East by some geo-political analysts, who argue a nuclear armed Iran could further agitate Pakistan.