Iran says it is not seeking war, but reserves the right to respond to aggression

Europa Press, Xinhua and Sputnik

The newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, August 8, 2024, p. 26

Madrid. Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian assured his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron yesterday that Tehran’s principles are avoid war and strive to establish world peace and securityalthough his country reserves the right to respond to Israel’s recent attacks.

In the name of treaties and international law, Iran will never remain silent in the face of violations against its interests and security.he said during a call with Macron, Iran’s Irna news agency reported.

Pezeshkian said the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh on July 31 in an attack in Tehran was an attempt by the Zionist regime of inflame the conflict in the region.

The United States and Western countries support a regime that does not adhere to any international laws and regulations and has not refrained from committing criminal acts in the region, with a contradictory approach.he said.

The Iranian president warned that as long as Israel, politically, financially and militarily supported by Western countriesfollow with their acts of genocide In Gaza and elsewhere, the region and the world will not have stability.

Iran’s acting foreign minister, Ali Bagheri Kani, spoke to his counterparts from the United Kingdom, David Lammy, and from Austria, Alexander Schallenberg, stressing to them that the assassinations of Haniyeh, from Hamas, and Fuad Shukr, from Hezbollah, were acts acts of aggression.

He told them that the United States and several European countries, which have prevented the United Nations Security Council from fulfilling its duty to stop Israel, were also responsible for the malicious acts from Tel Aviv.

Lammy acknowledged that Haniyeh’s assassination was a recoil to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, and called on Iran to show restraint, while Schallenberg expressed concern about the situation in that area and also called for not escalating the conflict.

Netanyahu calls for vigilance

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged his countrymen to remain calm and alert in the face of the announced Iranian attack. We continue to move towards victory. We are prepared for both defense and offense.he told troops at the Tel Hashomer base, according to an official statement.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah that Lebanon may pay a very high price if he responds, as he has promised, to last week’s attack on Shukr, the news portal reported. The Times of Israel.