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Pezeshkian: Enemy plots to spur discontent by striking infrastructure
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that the enemy's purpose for targeting infrastructure and imposing blockades on Iran is to create dissatisfaction among the people.
"The enemy plans to turn today's satisfaction of the people into dissatisfaction, and to counter the enemy's plot, we must not allow any grounds for public dissatisfaction to arise," Pezeshkian said during a visit to the country’s Interior Ministry.
He also urged people to reduce their use of electricity after American and Israeli strikes damaged the county’s energy infrastructure as the government aims to “control consumption” of electricity.
“Instead of turning on 10 lights at home, turn on two lights. What is wrong with that?” he said.
The US and Israel launched a large-scale and unprovoked war against Iran on February 28, assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and several high-ranking military commanders despite indirect Tehran-Washington negotiations on Iran's peaceful nuclear program.
During their recent aggression against Iran, the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran’s infrastructure and have imposed a blockade on Iran’s ports aimed at forcing Tehran to accept their conditions in Pakistan-brokered negotiations.
The attacks began with targeting military bases and residential buildings. However, Iran’s non-military infrastructure including communications centers, power plants, refineries, industrial sites, scientific centers and bridges was targeted after the aggressors failed to reach their objectives.
The US has also imposed a naval blockade on Iran’s ports and has so far seized three Iranians commercial vessels.
On April 14, Iran’s Ambassador to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani in a letter to the UN chief Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the US move as a flagrant violation of Iran's sovereignty and territorial integrity, calling it an illegal act of aggression that threatens regional and international peace and security.
He stressed that the US action constitutes a clear breach of Article 2, paragraph 4, of the UN Charter, which prohibits the threat or use of force, and represents a textbook example of aggression under international law.
The ambassador added that the illegal blockade also seriously violates the fundamental principles of the international law of the sea.
"By attempting to prevent maritime traffic to and from Iranian ports, the United States is illegally interfering in the exercise of the sovereign rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran and violating the rights of third states and legitimate maritime trade in accordance with international law," the letter stated.