Foreign Ministry Spokesperson says Iran\u2019s relations with other countries are never against India,\u201d stressing that bilateral ties should not target third countries under international law.<\/p>\n
Tehran – IranView24<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking to India\u2019s India Today, Esmaeil Baqaei stated that decisions on India\u2019s relations with other nations are solely New Delhi\u2019s responsibility.<\/p>\n According to Baqaei, Iran\u2019s relations with other countries have never been against India, and this is one of the basic principles of international law that no\u00a0bilateral relationship should be against a third country.<\/p>\n He also said Iran possesses significant surprise capability in the military sphere.<\/p>\n He discussed Iran\u2019s response to Trump\u2019s threats, detailing the history of Iran\u2019s diplomatic engagement with the US, highlighting the US withdrawal from the Iran’s nuclear agreement of 2015, assassinating IRGC Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, and explaining Iran\u2019s recent counterproposal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which the US rejected.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cBlockade itself is a declaration of an act of war,\u201d adding that the US and Israel are to blame for the current international maritime and energy crises, including those affecting India.<\/p>\n The Iranian Spokesperson also asked why the disarmament of Israel\u2019s nuclear weapons is not part of global demands, noting Iran\u2019s compliance with the NPT as opposed to Israel, which is not a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).<\/p>\n Addressing the possibility of a ground invasion by the US, Baqaei affirmed the Islamic Republic\u2019s military readiness, warning, \u201cWe have no other choice other than fighting back ferociously,\u201d concluding that Iran is defending its homeland and international law against aggression.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Foreign Ministry Spokesperson says Iran\u2019s relations with other countries are never against India,\u201d stressing that bilateral ties should not target third countries under international law. Tehran – IranView24 Speaking to India\u2019s India Today, Esmaeil Baqaei stated that decisions on India\u2019s relations with other nations are solely New Delhi\u2019s responsibility. According to Baqaei, Iran\u2019s relations with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":6705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,39,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6701","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\/6701","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=6701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6707,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions\/6707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}