Foreign Minister Hossein the ambassador stated at the UN that Iran is willing to reduce tensions with Israel if it promises to cease any additional military actions that go against Tehran’s interests.
Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iran’s foreign minister, stated at the UN that Tehran is willing to defuse tensions with Israel as long as the latter pledges to refrain from taking more military action against Tehran’s interests.
“Iran has completed its legitimate defense and countermeasures,” Amirabdollahian declared on Thursday at the UN Security Council. “Israel ought to be forced to cease any additional military incursions that contradict our interests.” If not, he claimed, Iran would “respond decisively and appropriately,” causing Israel to “regret its actions.”
Iran launched a “limited and minimal” missile and drone attack on Israel over the weekend, according to the ambassador, focusing solely on military installations. According to him, it was in retaliation for a previous Israeli hit on an Iranian consulate building in Syria. Nonetheless, even though Israel and its allies, the US and the UK, halted the great bulk of the incoming missiles and drones, Israeli leaders have vowed to respond to the Iranian onslaught that occurred last weekend.
“In case the Israeli regime embarks on adventurism again and takes action against the interests of Iran, the next response from us will be immediate and at a maximum level,” he declared in a CNN interview on Thursday night.
“We have conveyed a message to the White House and Washington D.C., the administration, announcing that we have underlined that our response will be decisive, definite, and regretful for them if the Israeli regime commits the grave blunder once again,” Amirabdollahian continued.
Hours before the Security Council voted on Palestine’s application to become a full member of the UN, which the US vetoed, he participated in a high-level discussion on the Middle East with foreign ministers from Brazil, Spain, Jordan, and other nations earlier in the day.
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The UK and Switzerland abstained from the vote, leaving 12 of the 15 members of the Security Council in support of the motion.
A Republican congressman called for the State Department to cancel Amirabdollahian’s visa this week, following his first visit to New York since tensions with Israel escalated. The foreign minister’s movements will be strictly restricted, according to department spokesman Matthew Miller, adding, “I would not expect to see him, for example, snapping selfies on top of the Empire State Building.”
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Earlier in the discussion, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the council that the Middle East “is on a knife edge” and that an end to hostilities between Israel and Palestine is necessary for the area to experience long-term stability.
