The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran rejected on Tuesday the call of Germany, France and the United Kingdom so that Tehran stop threatening Israel and noted that the country does not ask anyone’s permission to defend its national security.
“Iran is determined to defend its sovereignty and national security, as well as to help establish solid stability in the region and create deterrence against the real source of insecurity and terrorism in the area.”said the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kananiin a statement.
The Iranian diplomat said his country “does not ask anyone for permission in the use of its recognized rights,” in reference to a response to the assassination of the political leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyehin Tehran on July 31.
Faced with a possible imminent Iranian attack on Israeli territory, Germany, France and the United Kingdom on Monday called on Tehran and its allies in a joint statement to refrain from attacking Israel, in order to avoid an escalation of regional tensions and not jeopardize the opportunity to agree on a ceasefire.
“The statement by the three European countries, without any objection to the crimes of the Zionist regime (Israel), blatantly requests the Islamic Republic of Iran not to punish as an act of deterrence the regime that violates its sovereignty and territorial integrity.”the Iranian spokesman criticized.
Kanani also denounced the indifference of Western countries to Israeli crimes and said that, for this reason, “this Zionist regime continues to commit all kinds of international crimes, including genocide and war crimes against the defenseless Palestinian nation.”
“The impunity of the Zionist authorities has increased their insolence in committing the most atrocious crimes”Kananí said.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel’s sworn enemy, leads the so-called ‘Axis of Resistance’, an informal anti-Israel alliance made up of Hamas, Hezbollah of Lebanon and the Houthis of Yemen, among others.
Iran already launched a direct and unprecedented attack against Israeli territory in mid-April, in retaliation for the bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syriaon the 1st of the month, which caused the death of seven members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, including two generals. EFE (I)
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