Regional countries should cooperate towards ‘thwarting Israel’s evil acts’: FM
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said the Israeli regime’s violations and acts of deadly aggression posed a great danger to peace and security across the region and the world.
The top diplomat made the remarks during a meeting with his Kuwaiti counterpart Abdullah Ali al-Yahya on Saturday in New York, to which the Iranian official has travelled to attend the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
“The countries of the region should cooperate with one another towards thwarting this regime’s evil acts,” Araghchi said.
“Therefore, the Islamic Republic lays emphasis on maximal negotiation and interaction with the countries lying to the south of the Persian Gulf,” he added.
Araghchi’s remarks came amid the regime’s ongoing genocidal war against the Gaza Strip and escalated attacks across the occupied West Bank as well as its intensified deadly aggression against Lebanon.
A day earlier, the regime attacked a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut, killing at least 38 people, including three children, seven women, and a senior commander of the country’s resistance movement Hezbollah, named as Ibrahim Aqil.
The Iranian foreign minister described these measures as an attempt by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at trying to take the regime out of the deadlock that it has faced in Gaza.
“By its own perception, the Zionist regime went to Gaza to bring about complete elimination of [the territory’s] Hamas’ resistance movement,” Araghchi said.
“It (the regime), however, suffered defeat and is in a state of desperation now,” he added.
Araghchi, meanwhile, reiterated Iran’s pledge not to leave the regime’s assassination of Hamas’ former Political Bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh unanswered. Haniyeh was assassinated on July 31 while he was in the Iranian capital Tehran to attend the swearing-in ceremony of President Masoud Pezeshkian.
The Iranian official finally considered the policy of good-neighborliness to be among the principles that are adhered to by the Islamic Republic’s current administration. He pledged that the country’s relations with the regional countries would deepen further under the administration.
For his part, the Kuwaiti official welcomed Tehran’s favorable policy towards its neighbors, expressing hope for further expansion of the Islamic Republic’s relations with the countries of the region.
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