FM says US policies pushing world toward ‘law of jungle’
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the US policy of “peace through strength” was steering global affairs toward “the law of the jungle.”
“When the concept of peace through strength is invoked, it effectively means victory goes to whoever has greater power, while the real peace should be achieved through diplomacy,” Araghchi said in an interview with the program Ma‘ Moosa Al Farei in Oman’s capital, Muscat which was published late Monday night.
“But if the goal is to establish peace through force, it will only lead to more wars and more confrontations, as each side tries to become stronger to impose its will. This American approach effectively undermines all human achievements since the end of World War II”, he added.
The foreign minister noted that all countries had been trying to establish international relations based on law for more than eight decades, “but today these relations are unfortunately moving toward ties based on force; something that is called the law of the jungle.”
Israel’s plots in region
Referring to Israel’s acts of aggression against regional countries in recent years, Araghchi said that the regime had invaded seven countries in the past two years and was occupying the territories of three regional states. However, it still enjoyed complete immunity from the US and some European countries.
“The amount of territory that the Zionist regime has occupied in Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad is greater than the entire area of the Gaza Strip. And what is more regrettable is that we are witnessing plans to divide Syria into several parts. We consider this issue to be very dangerous, a danger to the entire region, because it can completely destroy its stability. The Zionist regime seeks to destabilize the region and divide it into small units and fragmented states”.
He also pointed to the Israel’s June aggression against Iran, saying that the war, conducted with direct US involvement, occurred in the middle of the nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington, which was an attack not only on Iran but on diplomacy itself.
Asked whether direct dialogue between Tehran and Tel Aviv could ever be possible, Araghchi said Iran “does not recognize any legitimacy for the Zionist regime.”
The occupation entity “does not belong to this region,” he said, adding that it was established through “the usurpation of Palestinian land” and maintained by “crimes, killings, and genocide.”