Qalibaf at IPU in Geneva asserts Iran not begging security from anyone
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said on Sunday that in his last month’s speech at a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU) in Geneva, he attempted to “break the image of a weakened Iran” and emphasized that the Islamic Republic is not begging for its security from anyone.
The only way the enemies have is to accept Iran’s legal rights and avoid an imposed war or an imposed peace with the country, Qalibaf made the remarks during a parliamentary session in Tehran.
Qalibaf said on Sunday that the Western media made great efforts to portray Iran as the loser of the recent conflict between Iran and Israel with the aim of forcing Iran to accept an “imposed peace after the imposed war.”
On June 13, Israel launched an unprovoked aggression against Iran, triggering a 12-day war that killed nearly 1,100 people in the country.
The United States also entered the war by bombing three Iranian nuclear sites in a grave violation of international law.
In response, the Iranian Armed Forces targeted strategic sites across the occupied territories as well as the Al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military base in West Asia.
On June 24, Iran, through its successful retaliatory operations against both the Israeli regime and the US, managed to impose a halt to the aggression.
Iran’s speaker said he tried to expose the atrocities that the criminal Zionist regime and its Western supporters are committing.
The Parliament speaker also said he sought to “expound that the behavior of the [Israeli] regime is based on the 21st-century Nazism, which, together with racism, systematic genocide, and aggression against other countries’ territorial integrity, poses a threat to global security.”
If the international community does not stand against Israel today, all countries will burn in the fire of the regime’s fascist attitude, he added.
In his address to the conference in Geneva on July 30, he held up the pictures of an Iranian infant, who was killed during the recent Israeli aggression against the country, and a starving Palestinian child in the Gaza Strip, as examples of the crimes of “the Nazis of the 21st century.”