Araghchi: US has ‘no authority’ to dictate Iran’s foreign policy
IRGC chief threatens ‘decisive’ response to any attack
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that Washington had “no authority” to dictate its foreign policy after US President Donald Trump urged Tehran to end support for Yemen’s Ansarullah’s movement.
“The United States Government has no authority, or business, dictating Iranian foreign policy,” Araghchi said in a post on X, while urging the US to stop the “killing of Yemeni people.”
Trump on Saturday said Washington had launched “decisive and powerful military action” to end the threat posed to Red Sea shipping by Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, and demanded Tehran’s support “must end immediately.”
Iran’s top diplomat said that the time when Washington could dictate Tehran’s foreign policy ended in 1979, when the Islamic Revolution topped the Western-backed Pahlavi regime.
Araghchi further denounced the US government’s support for Israeli terrorism and genocide in Gaza, spending tens of billions of dollars between October 2023 and September 2024.
“Biden was last year bamboozled into handing over unprecedented 23 billion dollars to a genocidal regime. More than 60,000 Palestinians killed and the world holds America fully accountable,” Araghchi said.
He urged US statesmen and officials to halt their support for the Tel Aviv regime’s vicious moves and acts of terror, and stop aggressive attacks on Yemen’s infrastructure and civilian centers.
“End support for Israeli genocide and terrorism. Stop killing of Yemeni people,” the Iranian foreign minister concluded.
Chief of Iran’s Revolution Guards Corps also reacted to Trump’s remarks, threatening a “decisive” response to any attack.
Major General Hossein Salami denounced Trump’s threats in a televised speech on Sunday, adding that “Iran will not wage war, but if anyone threatens, it will give appropriate, decisive and conclusive responses.”
The commander called the Ansarullah movement “the representative of the Yemenis,” adding that the group makes its “strategic and operational decisions” independently.