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Tehran favors peace over war; ready for ‘fair’ US deal: Araghchi
In an article published by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Araghchi also warned that US hostile actions toward Iran, from sanctions to military threats, have failed to achieve their goals.
Iranian foreign minister also warned the US that Tehran will be “firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack,” following US president’s threats of military aggression against Iran on the pretext of supporting Iranian demonstrators who took to the streets over the past weeks to protest the country’s economic situation which later turned bloody.
“Our powerful armed forces have no qualms about firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack,” he wrote, referring to the 12-day war launched by Israel and the US on Iran in June last year.
The foreign minister argued this was not a “threat”, “but a reality I feel I need to convey explicitly, because as a diplomat and a veteran, I abhor war.”
He added that, “An all-out confrontation will certainly be ferocious and drag on far, far longer than the fantasy timelines that Israel and its proxies are trying to peddle to the White House. It will certainly engulf the wider region and have an impact on ordinary people around the globe.”
Araghchi’s comments came a day after Trump repeated a warning that Iran would be wiped “off the face of this earth” if it ever succeeded in assassinating the US leader.
“I have very firm instructions. Anything happens, they’re going to wipe them off the face of this earth,” Trump said in a News Nation interview that aired on Tuesday.
Earlier on Tuesday, in response to any threats facing Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iranian General Abolfazl Shekarchi was quoted as saying that Trump already knew Tehran would not hold back if the tables were turned.
“Trump knows that if a hand of aggression is extended toward our leader, we will not only sever that hand, and this is not a mere slogan,” Iranian state media reported, quoting Shekarchi. “But we will set their world on fire and leave them no safe haven in the region.”