Iran warns regional countries of assisting US to appease it
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said on Monday that no regional country should allow its territory or facilities to be used by aggressors against Iran to “appease them”, adding that documentation of attacks from neighboring countries is underway.
Addressing his weekly press conference, Baqaei said that Tehran had warned regional countries not to put their territory at the disposal of aggressors against Iran for months and they all assured Iran that such a thing would not happen.
But, “What we have witnessed is the constant use of these countries’ facilities by the United States. We have told all these countries that we have no problems with them and will have relations with them forever, but we have been subjected to aggression, and it is our inherent right to defend ourselves. We only target American assets in these countries,” Baqaei said.
The Iranian official added that the regional countries know that under the international law, no country is authorized to allow an aggressor country to use its territory for aggression against other countries.
In response to a question about some Muslim countries’ double standards toward the aggression against Iran, especially over a recent UN Security Council resolution against Iran, Baqaei said the resolution passed with the support of Muslim countries is not “defensible”.
“History will judge the consequences of any support for law-breaking and aggression against countries, Baqaei said, stressing that the people of Iran will not forget these days.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who joined the press conference at the Foreign Ministry, underlined that Iran has not requested for a ceasefire amid its “honorable resistance” against the aggression.
“When we say we don’t want a ceasefire, it’s not because we’re seeking war, but because this war must end in a way that our enemies never consider repeating these attacks. I think they’ve already learned a good lesson with whom they are fighting – a nation that doesn’t hesitate to defend itself and is prepared to continue the war as far as necessary.”
Araghchi said that the country’s enemies are seeking an “unconditional surrender” of Iran in their new aggression – the goal that they failed to achieve during their June aggression.
The US and Israeli armed forces have launched an aggression against Iran since February 28, claiming the e lives of more than 1,000 people in Iran, including the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and several other high-ranking officials.
Iranian armed forces have decisively retaliated against the strikes by launching barrages of missile and drones against the Israeli-occupied territories as well as US bases in regional countries from which it launches attacks on Iran.