Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said an ambassadors meeting in Tehran that Israel’s ongoing attacks against the country could not have happened “without the agreement and support of the United States.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi gives a statement in Beirut, Lebanon, on June 3, 2025.
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“We have received messages from the USA. UU. Through several channels in the last two days stating that the United States had no participation and will not participate in this attack,” he said during the meeting, that it was transmitted by state media. “As I said, we do not believe in the United States statement.”
Araghchi also asked the international community to condemn Israel’s attacks on nuclear facilities.
“This is perhaps the last red line of international law that the Israeli regime has crossed, and if the international community is indifferent to these red lines, it will certainly have consequences for all other countries,” he said.
Araghchi said he had asked for a meeting on Monday with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency on attacks against Natanz’s nuclear facilities.
From Iran’s retaliation attacks on Israel, Foreign Minister said the attacks were “legitimate defenses.” He added: “If the aggression stops, naturally our reactions will also stop.” Araghchi confirmed that Iran achieved “economic” objectives in Israel on Saturday night.
Araghchi also said that Israel is responsible for the collapse in nuclear negotiations with the United States, its attack has sneaked the conversations planned in Oman on Sunday.
“It is perfectly clear that the Israeli regime does not want any agreement on the nuclear issue; he does not want negotiations; he does not want diplomacy; and the attack on Iran in the midst of nuclear negotiations demonstrates the opposition of the Israeli regime to any negotiation,” he said.
-ABC News’ Victoria Beaule
