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Tehran rejects baseless claims by UK, Australia against Iran
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei criticized the UK and Australia for their “unwavering support” of Israel’s criminal actions in the occupied Palestinian territories and West Asia, according to Tasnim.
He condemned their stance against Iran’s defensive operations in response to Israel’s attack on its embassy in Damascus, emphasizing that Iran’s operations — known as “True Promise 1” and “True Promise 2” — were in full compliance with international law and the UN Charter’s right to self-defense.
Addressing the UK and Australia’s claims of Iran’s ballistic missile export to Russia, Baghaei called the accusations part of US and UK efforts to “securitize international relations” and “globalize” the Ukraine conflict.
He noted that even Ukraine’s president had denied such claims.
The spokesperson further blamed the root of instability in West Asia on Israel’s “occupation and expansionism,” sustained with support from the US, UK, Australia and some other Western nations.
Baghaei also criticized the UK and Australia for “systematic human rights violations” in their treatment of asylum seekers in prisons and detention facilities, rebuking them for hypocrisy.
The Foreign Ministry official also slammed Australia’s activities and the continuance of colonial-era policies against Indigenous Australians, urging both countries to abandon their “instrumental and hypocritical” approaches to human rights.
Referring to comments by the UK Foreign Secretary that genocide in Palestine requires “millions” of deaths, Baghaei called the UK’s policy of “genocide denial” in Gaza shameful and devoid of moral credibility to lecture on human rights.