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US complicity in Israel’s assault on Iran ‘quite clear’: Araghchi

Sunday, 27 October 2024 9:37 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 27 October 2024 9:37 AM ]

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (Photo by the Iranian Foreign Ministry)

Iran's foreign minister says the United States’ complicity in Israel’s act of aggression against the country is “quite clear” as it has provided the regime with military equipment and airspace to conduct the terrorist raid.

Abbas Araghchi made the remarks on Sunday, a day after US officials claimed that Washington was not directly involved with the Israeli assault that targeted military installations and claimed the lives of four Iranian Army forces.

“The US is fully behind the Zionist regime and is complicit in all its crimes. In the operation two nights ago, the Americans’ participation is quite clear to us,” he said.

“The least they (the Americans) did was to provide a space corridor for the Zionist regime, as well as the equipment they already supplied [to Israel] somehow for participation in this operation.”

The top diplomat also noted that the United States bears responsibility for its “completely obvious” partnership in the occupying regime’s atrocities and escalation of tensions in West Asia.

He further said that Israel is committing crimes in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon using US weapons and enjoying Washington’s political support.

“It is a well-proven fact that without the US, Israel has no power in the region,” Araghchi emphasized.

Death toll from Israeli aggression on Iran rises to four

The death toll from the overnight Israeli aggression against a number of military positions across Iran has risen to four.

In the early hours of Saturday, Israeli warplanes used the space available to the US military in Iraq to fire long-range air-to-air missiles in Iran’s Tehran, Khuzestan, and Ilam provinces in flagrant violation of international law and the UN Charter.

Iran said that the attack was successfully intercepted and countered by the country’s air defense system and that it only caused limited damage to radar sites.

In an X post after the criminal raid, Araghchi said Iran reserves the right to duly respond to this aggression, which cannot be separated from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and bloodshed in Lebanon.

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