Iran reacted to a request by Pakistani Foreign Minister urging Iran and the U.S. to extend the ceasefire, stressing that the Islamic Republic will act based on its national interests and security considerations.<\/p>\n
Tehran – IranView24<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Iran is \u201cclosely monitoring developments in the field and political arena\u201d and will take \u201cnecessary and appropriate measures to safeguard Iran\u2019s national interests and security.\u201d<\/p>\n He added that Iran\u2019s Armed Forces are \u201cfully vigilant and ready for comprehensive and decisive defense of Iran\u2019s integrity against any threat and malicious act.\u201d<\/p>\n Baghaei made the remarks in response to a request by Pakistan\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, who called for extending the April 8 ceasefire between Iran and the United States.<\/p>\n He expressed appreciation for Pakistan\u2019s \u201cgood offices and mediation efforts aimed at ending the imposed war and establishing peace in the region,\u201d while emphasizing that \u201cthe Islamic Republic of Iran was not the initiator of this imposed war.\u201d<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s actions have all been \u201cwithin the framework of the inherent right of legitimate defense against the military aggression of the United States and the Zionist regime,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n On the possibility of a new round of negotiations with Washington, he stated, \u201cDiplomacy is a tool for securing national interests and security, and whenever we conclude that the necessary and reasonable conditions exist to use this tool\u2026 we will take action.\u201d<\/p>\n Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he would extend the ceasefire at the request of Pakistan while maintaining the blockade and military readiness against the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iran reacted to a request by Pakistani Foreign Minister urging Iran and the U.S. to extend the ceasefire, stressing that the Islamic Republic will act based on its national interests and security considerations. Tehran – IranView24 Speaking on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Iran is \u201cclosely monitoring developments in the field and political […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":6047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,39,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6046","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\/6046","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=6046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6048,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions\/6048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}