‘Ultimate audacity’: Pezeshkian pillories Western hypocrisy over Israel’s atrocities
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Thursday denounced the double standards adopted by the countries claiming to support democracy and human rights, saying that they disregard Israel’s crimes but accuse the Islamic Republic of stoking insecurity in the region.
Pezeshkian made the remarks in a meeting commemorating the martyrs of the 12-day war of US and Israeli aggression on Iran in June that claimed the lives of more than 1,100 innocent people, including women and children, as well as top military officials and scientific figures.
“A handful of tie-wearing individuals, with false pretenses, speak of human rights from the platforms at their disposal, while the regime they support bombs innocent women and children. What sin or crime did these beloved ones, who were at sleep in their homes, commit to be massacred by this criminal regime?”
The Iranian president underlined that the countries claiming to support democracy and human rights, “with ultimate audacity, do not see the brutal crimes of a regime that terrorizes and kills throughout the region, but accuse the Iranian nation, which is itself a victim of terrorism, of stoking insecurity in the region.”
Stressing that the goal of the pressures exerted by the US and Western countries against the Islamic Republic is to turn Iran into a “disarmed, weak, and defenseless nation against their brutal attacks and aggression,” Pezeshkian said, “We fear no threat… We detest war and seek peace and tranquility, but we will respond decisively to any aggression."
The Iranian president also lauded the sacrifices of the Iranian nation in the recent US-Israeli-imposed war on the country, underlining that the public proved to the world their loyalty and steadfastness in defense of their homeland.