Araghchi tells UK FM: Stop Israel support; Iran won’t hesitate to defend territorial integrity

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi asserts that Iran will not hesitate to exercise its inherent and legal right to defend its territorial integrity and national sovereignty against potential acts of aggression.

The top diplomat made the remarks on Sunday during a phone call with his British counterpart David Lammy.

Araghchi outlined the Islamic Republic’s position concerning the Israeli regime’s recent attacks against defensive targets across Tehran, Khuzestan, and Ilam Provinces, which were successfully thwarted by the country’s Air Defense Force.

He referred to Iranian authorities’ promise of retaliation against the atrocities, saying Iran’s potential response would fit within the accepted principles of the international law and the United Nations Charter.

Araghchi laid emphasis on the need for the international community and institutions, especially the UN, to immediately condemn the aggression, which he identified as, continuation of the regime’s atrocities in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

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He urged adoption of drastic measures aimed at holding the regime’s ringleaders accountable for the aggression and cause it to stop its war of genocide on Gaza and deadly escalation against Lebanon.

The regime has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people since last October, when it embarked on the atrocities against the coastal sliver and Lebanon.

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As means of stemming the aggression, the foreign minister urged cessation of ongoing military and political support for the Israeli regime.

For his part, Lammy considered the circumstances in the West Asia region to be inflammatory, stressing the need for self-restraint on the part of all concerned parties towards fulfillment of underway efforts at de-escalation of tensions and prevention of expansion of warfare and instability in the region.

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