Tehran: The Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has said that the US President Donald Trump has betrayed not only Iran but his own supporters as result of today’s 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 has betrayed not only Iran by abusing our commitment to diplomacy but also deceived his own voters,” said Abbas Araghchi.
Asked whether there is still room for diplomacy after the US attack, Araghchi said “not right now”.
“The door for diplomacy should always stay open, but this is not the case right now,” the Iranian foreign minister said. “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 said, “is an unforgivable violation of international law”.
The Iranian foreign minister says the “warmongering and lawless” US administration will be “solely and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and for reaching implement implications of its act of aggression”.
“The US military attack on the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of a UN member state carried out in collusion with the genocidal [Israeli] regime, has once again revealed the extent of the United States hostility towards the peaceseeking people of Iran,” he added.
The Iranian foreign minister has condemned the US’s “brutal military aggression” against what he described as Iran’s peaceful nuclear programme.
“It is an outrageous, grave and unprecedented violation of the fundamental principles of the charter of the United Nations and international law,” Abbas Araghchi said during his speech in Istanbul at the OIC summit.
Asked whether there is still room for diplomacy after the US attack, Araghchi said “not right now”.
“The door for diplomacy should always stay open, but this is not the case right now,” the Iranian foreign minister said. “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 said, “is an unforgivable violation of international law”.
