Iran Not Seeking to Destabilize West Asia: Esmaeil Baghaei
Iranian diplomat Esmaeil Baghaei, 2024. X/ @IRIMFA_EN
October 18, 2024 Hour: 6:11 am
The U.S. and Germany are the main apologists of Israeli crimes, said the Iranian diplomat.
On Thursday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei dismissed a recent claim by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that Tehran seeks to destabilize the West Asia region.
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In response to Scholz’s remarks on Wednesday condemning Iran’s missile attacks against Israel in early October and calling it “risking setting the entire region on fire,” Baghaei said that “Iran has no interest in playing with fire.”
“Iran struggles to put up withthe fire your lethal gifts (to Israel) have inflicted upon our region,” he pointed out, calling Scholz’s warning “revealingly hypocritical.”
“Those who are complicit in the crime and justify genocide and war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law, lack any moral high ground to preach others who are bearing the brunt,” Baghaei stressed.
In a separate post, Baghaei said the United States and Germany are the “biggest supplier of lethal weapons” to Israel and the main “apologists of Israeli crimes.”
On Oct. 1, Iran fired approximately 180 missiles at Israeli targets. Tehran described the strikes as retaliation for the assassinations of several leaders of the regional resistance groups and Israel’s military actions against Lebanese and Palestinian armed groups.
In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Iran had made a “grave mistake” and vowed retaliation.
teleSUR/ JF Source: Xinhua
