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Iran never sought to dominate region: FM spox
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Sunday that Iran has never sought to dominate the West Asia region but by no means can any country ignore its regional position.
"We have our own position, role, and place in the region," Ismaeil Baqaei said during his weekly press conference.
He said that the Islamic Republic is the inheritor of an ancient civilization with a rich culture, which over time has learned well how to adapt to changing conditions.
Referring to Israel’s expansionist policy in the region, Baqaei said that the only party that has taken over the territory of two regional countries is the Tel Aviv regime.
The issue that should be a shared concern for the countries of the region is the expansionist policy of the Israeli regime, Baqaei said, adding that, “It is enough to look into set of facts.”
Since the beginning of the regime’s onslaught on Gaza in 2023, it has also launched acts of aggression against several regional countries including Lebanon and Syria and has occupied parts of their territories.
Over the past two years, Israel has rained down an equivalent of 12 atomic bombs of the type used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Gaza. This is the party that has carried out the massacre of over 70,000 innocent people in Gaza and insists on endless wars against the nations of the region, he added.
Elsewhere, Baqaei was asked about recent remarks by US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack, who said Washington attempted twice in the past to overthrow the Iranian government but achieved nothing.
He said over the past five decades, successive US administrations have consistently sought to interfere in Iran’s internal affairs.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman said that what the Americans themselves refer to as “regime change” is actually an explicit acknowledgment of their illegal attempts to violate Iran’s national sovereignty.
“What this American official has recently said, in my view, amounts merely to an admission of two attempts. Yet, we know that over the years, there have been numerous actions aimed at harming the Iranian people and interfering in Iran’s internal affairs, … with the 1953 coup being a very clear example,” he pointed out.
“Therefore, these actions have not been limited to the past five decades. The US interference in Iran’s domestic affairs has a very long history."