“Iran provided a decisive and legitimate response to an illegal action by the (Israeli) regime against (our) diplomatic facilities that took place in violation of international law,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said at a conference on Monday. weekly press.
“But if another mistake occurs, Iran’s response will be stronger,” he added.
On April 1, the Israeli regime committed a terrorist attack against Iran’s diplomatic facilities in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
The Israeli attack resulted in the martyrdom of Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), his deputy, General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, and five of the officers who They accompanied them.
In retaliation, the IRGC attacked the occupied territories on April 13 with a barrage of drones and missiles. The retaliatory strikes, dubbed Operation True Promise, have inflicted damage on Israeli military bases throughout the occupied Palestinian territories.
Kanaani referred to a recently announced plan by the European Union to impose further sanctions on Iran for retaliatory attacks, saying the bloc would be “rewarding the aggressor” if it pursued such measures against the Islamic Republic.
“If they take (that) measure, it would go down in European history as a reprehensible action.”
The official expressed surprise that Brussels could go ahead with sanctioning Tehran for its legitimate retaliation against the Zionist regime, but had so far stopped short of imposing punitive measures against Tel Aviv for the latter’s unspeakable atrocities in the Gaza Strip.
Kanaani, meanwhile, reminded the EU that its previous sanctions against the Islamic Republic had failed to hinder the country’s progress. “The sanctions policy is a failed policy,” Kan’ani said, advising the bloc to “learn from the past.”
The spokesman highlighted the downing of three foreign quadcopters by the Islamic Republic’s air defense near the central city of Isfahan, which caused no damage or injuries.
He said Iran and the United States had exchanged “some messages” after what happened, but dismissed the incident as just an “annoying” move that “did not deserve any follow-up at this level.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, Kanaani commented on Iran’s nuclear activities, saying, “Iran’s nuclear doctrine is completely clear. “We consider the peaceful use (of nuclear energy) to be our absolute right.”
The Islamic Republic will maintain its peaceful nuclear activities within the framework established by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the agency’s safeguards and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), he stated.
“Nuclear weapons have no place in Iran’s defensive doctrine.”
Concluding its comments, the statement identified the Israeli regime as a “threat to all countries in the region,” adding that the regime’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip in October demonstrated that “the usurper regime is not a partner of the peaceful plans and thinks of nothing else. instead of genocide and forced displacement of Palestinians.”
“Iran definitely faces a long-range view at the level of international spheres that the question of Palestine would not be resolved except by ending the (Israeli) occupation.”