Iran promises to resist US attacks ‘with all its might’
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement slamming the US’s latest strikes on its nuclear facilities as a “gross and unprecedented violation” of international law, and saying it has the right to resist such “aggression”.
“The world must not forget that it was the United States that, in the midst of a diplomatic process, betrayed diplomacy” by supporting Israel’s “aggressive action”, and is now waging “a dangerous war against Iran”, the ministry said in a statement carried by the semi-official Tasnim news agency.The ministry said it has become clear that the US “adheres to no rules or ethics, and in order to advance the aims of a genocidal and occupying regime, spares no lawlessness or crime”.
The ministry said it has become clear that the US “adheres to no rules or ethics, and in order to advance the aims of a genocidal and occupying regime, spares no lawlessness or crime”.“The Islamic Republic of Iran considers it its right to stand with all its might against US military aggression and the crimes committed by this rogue regime, and to defend the security and national interests of Iran,” it added.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran considers it its right to stand with all its might against US military aggression and the crimes committed by this rogue regime, and to defend the security and national interests of Iran,” it added.
Iranians fear Netanyahu wants to ‘dismember’ Iran along ethnic lines
We’ve been speaking to Mehran Kamrava, a professor of government at Georgetown University in Qatar. He told Al Jazeera that the people of Iran fear that Israel’s goals stretch far beyond its stated goal of destroying the country’s nuclear and missile programmes.
“Many in Iran believe that Israel’s end game, really, is to turn Iran into Libya, into Iraq, what it was after the US invasion in 2003, and/or Afghanistan. And so the dismemberment of Iran is what Netanyahu has in mind, at least in as far as Tehran is concerned,” he said.
“And so, for the Iranians, capitulation is not an option. Because they would see this as not just regime change, but as a dismemberment of the country. Already, there’s talk in Jerusalem of providing security guarantees to Iran’s different ethnic communities, the Baluch, the Arabs, the Kurds, and to do to Iran the de-facto division that has occurred in places like Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.”
US bases ‘not strength but greatest vulnerability’: IRGC
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says “the criminal American regime” has not learned the lessons of past Middle East wars and will suffer the consequences after bombing Iran. “The US’s repetition of past failed follies demonstrates strategic incompetence and disregard for the realities on the ground in the region,” the IRGC said in a statement.
“Instead of learning from repeated failures, Washington has effectively placed itself on the front lines of aggression by directly attacking peaceful [nuclear] installations.”
The paramilitary force said the flight locations of the US aircraft that participated in the attack “have been identified and monitored”. “The number, dispersion, and size of US military bases in the region are not a strength but have doubled their vulnerability,” the IRGC warned.
