Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi tells Al Jazeera that Iran would ‘immediately and decisively’ to an US oregon Israeli attack.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has told Al Jazeera that immoderate onslaught by Israel oregon the United States connected Iran’s atomic facilities would plunge the portion into an “all-out war”.
In an interrogation with Al Jazeera Arabic during a sojourn to Qatar, Araghchi warned that launching a subject onslaught connected Iranian atomic facilities would beryllium “one of the biggest humanities mistakes the US could make”.
He said Iran would respond “immediately and decisively” to immoderate onslaught and that it would pb to an “all-out warfare successful the region”.
Concerns person grown successful Iran that US President Donald Trump mightiness empower Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to onslaught Iran’s atomic sites portion further tightening US sanctions during his 2nd word successful office.
Araghchi said helium met Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani successful Doha to sermon cardinal determination issues.
“We highly commend Qatar’s mediation relation successful reaching the ceasefire successful Gaza,” Araghchi said successful an interrogation broadcast connected Friday. “I anticipation each different issues volition beryllium ironed out.”
He besides met Hamas officials portion successful Qatar and said Palestinians had achieved “victory” successful Gaza, contempt the devastation of Israel’s war connected the enclave.
“Despite each the killings and demolition the full satellite witnessed, the Palestinian radical held their crushed and upheld their values and principles. I judge this stands arsenic a victory,” helium said.
“The Israeli concern forces did each successful their powerfulness to destruct Hamas and escaped their captives, but they were forced astatine the extremity of the time to beryllium and negociate with Hamas. This represents triumph for Hamas,” helium added.
Israel’s war connected Gaza has killed astatine slightest 47,460 Palestinians, chiefly women and children, and wounded 111,580 since October 7, 2023. At slightest 1,139 radical were killed successful Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that time and much than 200 taken captive.
Much of the Strip has been reduced to rubble and the immense bulk of Gaza’s 2.3 cardinal colonisation person been displaced.
Regarding developments successful Syria, Araghchi said Iran supports the enactment of a authorities successful which each segments of Syrian nine tin enactment pursuing the toppling of erstwhile President Bashar al-Assad, who was a beardown state of Iran.
Araghchi said Iran’s goals are for stableness successful Syria and to sphere the unity of the country’s territory.
“We endorse immoderate authorities chosen and supported by the Syrian people. We privation bid and information for Syrian, which is simply a precursor to the aforesaid successful the region,” helium said.
“We don’t privation to spot Syria arsenic the epicentre of endless hostility oregon taste conflicts, which whitethorn crook it into a harmless haven for terrorists. Instability successful Syria would spill implicit the region.”
Iran had supported al-Assad since Syria’s warfare broke retired successful 2011, providing him with fighters, weapons and different subject enactment that aimed to support him successful power, arsenic good arsenic to support Tehran’s determination “axis of resistance” to Israel and the US.
Regarding the re-election of Trump, Araghchi said the past of Iranian-American relations was “full of hostility and mistrust”.
He pointed retired that the US nether the past Trump medication withdrew from the atomic statement and assassinated Qassem Soleimani, the caput of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC’s) Quds Force.
He called connected the caller Trump medication to instrumentality applicable steps to reconstruct confidence, specified arsenic returning frozen Iranian funds, and said Iran does not entity to nonstop dialog with the US, but insists connected limiting negotiations to the atomic issue.