Iran\u2019s Acting Defense Minister sent a message to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), saying the bloc can play an effective role in the region and the world within the framework of a common collective security concept.<\/p>\n
Tehran – IranView24<\/strong><\/p>\n The message was delivered by the Spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics Brigadier General Reza Talaei Nik at a meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization Defense Ministers in Bishkek.<\/p>\n \u201cAs you are aware, the Islamic Republic of Iran, as a member and part of the Shanghai geography, has been targeted by unlawful attacks and aggression by the United States and the Zionist regime on two occasions in less than a year \u2013 in June 2025 and February 2026 \u2013 aggression that has plunged West Asia into insecurity and crisis,\u201d read part of the message.<\/p>\n The message said the aggression constitutes a clear violation of the principle prohibiting the use of force enshrined in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, as well as Chapter VI on peaceful dispute settlement, and the 1949 Geneva Conventions.<\/p>\n \u201cBeyond being a breach of international humanitarian law, it is considered a war crime and state terrorism, and besides its devastating consequences for regional peace and security, it has challenged our collective efforts to achieve lasting peace,\u201d the message added.<\/p>\n Iran, exercising its inherent right to self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter, has taken \u201cdecisive and proportionate measures\u201d to defend its security, national sovereignty, and territorial integrity based on the principles of proportionality, distinction, and precaution, the statement said.<\/p>\n It stressed that US military bases in neighboring countries played a significant role in enabling and supporting the aggression. \u201cRegrettably, those countries failed, contrary to their pre-war pledges not to allow third parties to violate Iran\u2019s territorial integrity, to prevent the use of those bases against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Therefore, the aforementioned bases became legitimate targets for the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s armed forces,\u201d the message read.<\/p>\n The Acting Minister said the world today \u201cis too complex to resolve issues with the language of threats and force,\u201d citing recent US statements on other country\u2019s natural resources, erasing nations\u2019 civilizations, renaming geographical sites, claiming ownership over other countries\u2019 territories, and changing legal systems in Venezuela and Cuba.<\/p>\n He also voiced Iran\u2019s full readiness to actively participate in all SCO initiatives aimed at strengthening collective security and confronting common threats, particularly the fight against terrorism, extremism, and separatism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iran\u2019s Acting Defense Minister sent a message to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), saying the bloc can play an effective role in the region and the world within the framework of a common collective security concept. Tehran – IranView24 The message was delivered by the Spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":6240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,41,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-defense-and-security","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239","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=6239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6241,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239\/revisions\/6241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}