Iran Warns US Strikes to Have 'Everlasting Consequences'
Iran Warns US Strikes to Have 'Everlasting Consequences'
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned Sunday morning of “everlasting consequences” after US President Donald Trump announced that the American military had carried out a “successful attack” on the Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites in Iran.
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The United States “has committed a grave violation of the UN Charter, international law and the NPT [the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] by attacking Iran’s peaceful nuclear installations,” Iran’s top diplomat wrote on X.
“The events this morning are outrageous and will have everlasting consequences,” Araghchi said.
He added: “In accordance with the UN Charter and its provisions allowing a legitimate response in self-defense, Iran reserves all options to defend its sovereignty, interest, and people.”
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations called on Sunday for an emergency Security Council meeting for what he described as America’s “heinous attacks and illegal use of force” against Iran.
In a letter obtained by the AP, Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani said that the UN’s most powerful body must “take all necessary measures” to hold the US accountable under international law and the UN charter.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran condemns and denounces in the strongest possible terms these unprovoked and premeditated acts of aggression, which have followed the large-scale military attack conducted by the Israeli regime on 13 June against Iran’s peaceful nuclear sites and facilities,” the letter said.
IRGC says every American now 'legitimate target'
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps wrote on social media, "Now the war has begun for us," following Trump's confirmation of US airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites early Sunday morning.
Additionally, a commentator on Iranian state television stated that every American civilian or military personnel in the region became a legitimate target.
Houthis respond to US strikes on Iran
A Yemeni Houthi official said on Sunday that the Iran-aligned group's response to the US attack on Iran was "only a matter of time."
Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi movement's political bureau, told Al Jazeera Mubasher TV that its ceasefire deal with Washington was before the "war" on Iran.
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There was no immediate comment from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has reportedly been hiding in a bunker while facing threats of assassination by Israel in the ongoing war.
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