Tehran [Iran], March 25 (ANI): Tehran’s messaging remains defiant even as US President Trump says talks to end the conflict are underway. Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi pledged that Tehran will sustain defensive and retaliatory measures until the United States and Israel “regret” their aggression.
Araghchi made the remarks during a telephone conversation with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. According to Press TV, he blamed Washington’s and Tel Aviv’s attacks on the Islamic Republic’s civilian and defence infrastructure as the main cause of regional instability.
“Iran will defend its national sovereignty and territorial integrity until all objectives are achieved and the enemy is made to regret its violent aggression,” he said.
He also linked insecurity in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz to those attacks, adding that Iran’s measures and precautions “are in accordance with international law and are aimed at defending Iran’s sovereignty and national security, while preventing aggressors from misusing this waterway to carry out acts of aggression against Iran.”
Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it launched a fresh wave of retaliatory strikes targeting Israel’s intelligence facilities in Tel Aviv. The IRGC’s Public Relations Department reported deploying Kheybar Shekan, Emad, and Sejjil missiles alongside Aerospace Force kamikaze drones, breaching Israel’s multi-layered air-defence systems. The missiles reportedly struck intelligence facilities in northern and central Tel Aviv, military-commercial and support centres in Ramat Gan and the Negev, and southern military logistics and command headquarters in Beersheba.
President Trump, meanwhile, said his negotiations were with the “right kind of people” in Iran and suggested the situation signified regime change. He described a recent development as “a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money” related to oil and gas and the flow through the Strait of Hormuz, and said, “We are dealing with a group of people who turned out… This is a change in the regime because the leaders are all very different from the ones that we started off with, who created all those problems.”
With strikes and counterstrikes continuing, peace in the troubled West Asia region remains elusive. (ANI)
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