MBABANE:Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned the United States that Tehran will be “firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack”, a day after President Donald Trump reiterated threats against the Middle East country.
Aljazeera reported on Wednesday that, Araghchi’s warning came in an opinion article published by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
“Our powerful armed forces have no qualms about firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack,” he wrote, referring to the 12-day war launched by Israel on Iran in June last year.
The foreign minister argued this was not a “threat”, “but a reality I feel I need to convey explicitly, because as a diplomat and a veteran, I abhor war”.
The Iran Foreign Minister added that “an all-out confrontation will certainly be ferocious and drag on far, far longer than the fantasy timelines that Israel and its proxies are trying to peddle to the White House. It will certainly engulf the wider region and have an impact on ordinary people around the globe”.
“We will be firing back with everything we have if come under renewed attack,” Iran Foreign Minister tells United States Abbas Araghchi (pic: via Aljazeera).