Iran’s Ambassador to France Mohammad Aminnejad says Iran, as the party that has been attacked, still welcomes an end to violence and instability in the region, although this depends on ending the aggressors’ attacks under Iran’s desired conditions.
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Speaking to French media TF1, Aminnejad said Tehran did not start the war and is a victim of brutal US-Israeli military aggression.
As long as the threat continues, Iran’s Armed Forces and people will continue to defend their territory legitimately, he added.
However, based on the right of legitimate defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter, it will defend its territorial integrity against any scenario and under any circumstances, he reiterated.
In response to a question about the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, he rejected the accusation that Iran had blocked this waterway and said the existing insecurities are due to the military presence of the US and the Israeli regime in the region, their illegitimate aggression against Iran, and the assessment of its situation as unstable by ship owners and companies.
He noted that Iran, with the longest coastline in the Persian Gulf, has always been the guarantor of stability and security for shipping in this region throughout history.
Iran does not consider any country its enemy and is not considered a threat to any country, including France, he stressed.
US President Donald Trump once again backed down from his threats and announced that he would agree to a two-week pause in his war of aggression with Iran.
Trump had previously threatened to target Iranian power plants, bridges and other civilian infrastructure, which to many legal experts would amount to a war crime.
Trump wrote on his Truth Social account that he had decided to stop attacks on Iran “based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan.”
He also said that Iran has agreed to “the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz,” adding that this “will be a double sided CEASEFIRE!”
The United States and Israel started a war on Iran on February 28 by assassinating Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, and targeting a school in the city of Minab, southern Iran, in which about 170 students and school staff lost their lives.
At the time, indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States were underway with the mediation of some regional countries.
