Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi strongly criticized U.S. strike on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Sea of Oman, saying blocking Iranian ports is a breach of ceasefire.<\/p>\n
Tehran – IranView24<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cBlockading Iranian ports is an act of war and thus a violation of the ceasefire,\u201d Araghchi wrote on his X on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u201cStriking a commercial vessel, and taking its crew hostage is an even greater violation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cIran knows how to neutralize restrictions, how to defend its interests, and how to resist bullying,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n Earlier on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry in a statement strongly condemned the United States\u2019 piracy and said the attack, \u201cnot only contravenes the fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter and international law but also represents a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement enforced on April 8, and an act of aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n The Ministry called on the UN secretary-general, the UN Security Council, and the International Maritime Organization, as well as responsible governments to take firm and decisive response to the criminal act against international commercial shipping.<\/p>\n It also warned of extremely dangerous consequences resulting from the United States\u2019 criminal and unlawful act, stressing the need for the immediate release of the vessel, its crew, and their families.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi strongly criticized U.S. strike on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Sea of Oman, saying blocking Iranian ports is a breach of ceasefire. Tehran – IranView24 \u201cBlockading Iranian ports is an act of war and thus a violation of the ceasefire,\u201d Araghchi wrote on his X on Tuesday. \u201cStriking a commercial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":6027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,39,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-foreign-policy","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6028,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026\/revisions\/6028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}