Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi affirmed that his country will continue to exercise its right to self-defense, with pride and bravery, and will “make the aggressor regret and pay for its grave error.”
“Iran has proven in action what it has always publicly committed itself to: we have never sought and will never seek nuclear weapons,” Araghchi said on X.
“By now, the whole world should know that Iran solely acts in self-defense,” he said.
“Even in the face of the most outrageous aggression against our people, Iran has so far only retaliated against the Israeli regime and not those who are aiding and abetting it,” he added.
Araghchi said that Prime Minister of the Israeli entity Benjaminآ Netanyahu manufactured this war to destroy diplomacy, and that the world should be highly alarmed about “increasing attempts by the failing Israeli regime to get others to bail it out and to expand the flames to the region and beyond.”
The Israeli entity had launched airstrikes in the early hours of June 13 targeting nuclear and military facilities in Iran, resulting in the deaths of several commandersآ and scientists, in addition to a number of civilians.
In response, Iran launched a barrage of missiles and drones at military and industrial targets in the occupied territories, raising fears of the region sliding into a broader confrontation that could threaten regional stability.
