FM: US Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facilities ‘Unforgivable’
Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi strongly condemned the US military onslaught against his country's nuclear programme, and emphasized that Tehran will respond the hostile and unforgivable action based on its legitimate right to self-defence.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran condemns in the strongest terms the United States' brutal military assault against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities. It is an outrageous, grave and unprecedented violation of the fundamental principles of the charter of the United Nations and international law,” Araqchi said at a news conference in Istanbul on Sunday. The “warmongering and lawless" administration in Washington is "solely and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and far-reaching implications of its act of aggression", he stressed.“The US military attack on the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of a United Nations member state carried out in collusion with the genocidal Israeli regime has once again revealed the extent of the United States’ hostility towards the peace-seeking people of Iran,” the minister added.
“Silence in the face of such blatant onslaught will plunge the world into an unprecedented level of danger and chaos. Humanity has come too far as a species to allow a lawless bully to take us back to the law of the jungle,” the high-ranking diplomat added. The Iranian foreign minister declared that US President Donald Trump has betrayed not only Iran but his own supporters as a result of the US attacks.“While President Trump was elected on a platform of putting an end to America’s costly involvement in ‘forever wars’ in our part of the world,” he said.“He has betrayed not only Iran by abusing our commitment to diplomacy but also deceived his own voters by submitting to the wishes of a wanted war criminal who has grown accustomed to exploiting the lives and wealth of American citizens to further the Israeli regime’s objectives,” Araqchi added, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.The minister said “it could not be emphasised enough how much of a devastating blow” the US has dealt to the global non-proliferation regime, demanding international institutions and bodies “of their duty and responsibility to take urgent and decisive action in response to this breach of international law”.
Asked whether there is still room for diplomacy after the US attack, Araqchi stressed, “not right now”.“The door for diplomacy should always stay open, but this is not the case right now,” he said, adding, “My country has been under attack, under aggression, and we have to respond based on our legitimate right to self-defence.”The US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, he noted, “is an unforgivable violation of international law”.Asked what the conditions would be for Iran to come back to the negotiations after the US attack, the Iranian foreign minister said it is “irrelevant” to ask Iran to return to diplomacy.“We were in the middle of diplomacy. We were in the middle of talks with the United States when Israelis blew it up,” Araqchi continued, adding, “And again, we were in the middle of talks and negotiation with Europeans [that] happened only two days ago in Geneva, when this time, Americans decided to blow it up."
“So it was not Iran, but the US who betrayed diplomacy. They betrayed negotiations,” he emphasized.“I think they have proved that they are not men of diplomacy, and they only understand the language of threat and force. And this is very unfortunate,” the top diplomat continued.The foreign minister said it’s the responsibility of the “whole international community” to stop US threats against Iran, insisting his country’s nuclear programme has remained entirely peaceful.“Iran has done nothing wrong. We do not understand why Iran should be attacked for a false accusation that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons,” he added, noting it was the US that tore up the previous nuclear agreement and interrupted the latest round of talks with military strikes.“It’s up to the international community to condemn this, to prevent this,” Araqchi continued, stating, “Otherwise, there will be nothing left of international law.”He added that the Iranian people are “united and in solidarity with the government, and we stand firm against any aggression”.Araqchi stated that Iran will never "compromise" on its "independence and sovereignty". "The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to defend Iran’s territory, sovereignty, and people by all means necessary against not just US military aggression but also the reckless and assault by the Israeli regime,” he continued.
The US onslaught against Iranian nuclear sites was reported in the early hours of Sunday, announced by the American president himself on his social media platforms.Iran has strongly condemned the brutal military assault against the nuclear facilities, calling it “a grave and unprecedented violation of the fundamental principles of the Charter of the UN and international law.”Tehran has stressed that it holds the “war-mongering and lawless” US regime “fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and far-reaching implications of this egregious act of aggression and heinous crime".The foreign ministry said in a statement it is determined “to defend Iran's territory, sovereignty, security and people by all force and means against the United States' criminal aggression".The ministry added the assault has “unequivocally exposed Washington’s criminal complicity with the Zionist regime in orchestrating and waging a war against Iran".
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