Iran: We will defend ourselves against US 'criminal aggression' with 'all force'

Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the United States’ "brutal military aggression against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities", describing it "a grave and unprecedented violation of the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the international law".

"The war-mongering and lawless regime of the United States of America is held fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and far-reaching implications of this egregious act of aggression and heinous crime," it said in a statement.

"The US military aggression against the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of a UN member state—carried out in collusion with the genocidal Israeli regime—once again laid bare the depth of depravity that governs American foreign policy and revealed the extent of hostility harbored by the US ruling establishment against the peace-seeking and independence-loving people of Iran."

The ministy said that Tehran was determined to "defend Iran's territory, sovereignty, security and people by all force and means against the United States' criminal aggression".

"The US unlawful attack on Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities, which occurred in the early hours of the 10th day of Israel’s military aggression against Iran, has unequivocally exposed Washington’s criminal complicity with the Zionist regime in orchestrating and waging a war against Iran," it went on.

"This act of aggression, perpetrated by a permanent member of the Security Council, against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities constitutes not only a flagrant breach of the UN Charter—especially the prohibition of the use of force under Article 2(4) and the obligation to respect states' territorial integrity and sovereignty—but also a violation of the UN Security Council Resolution 2231".

Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of #Iran concerning the #UnitedStates military aggression against Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities

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