Dubai: Iran said on Monday that American and Israeli threats against this were a blatant violation of international law and that they could not “do a fucking thing” to hurt Tehran.
The comments came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Jerusalem on Sunday and said their country was determined to thwart the nuclear ambitions of Iran and its influence in the Middle East.
Netanyahu said that Israel had brought a “powerful blow” to Iran since the start of the conflict in Gaza and that with the support of US President Donald Trump “I have no doubt that we can and finish work” .
Speaking at a weekly press conference on Monday, the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Esmaeil Baghaei, replied: “Regarding a country like Iran, they cannot do Nothing.”
“You cannot threaten Iran on the one hand and claim to support dialogue on the other hand,” said Baghaei, reported the state media.
Trump expressed an opening to an agreement with Tehran while restoring the “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran which was applied during his first mandate to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
While not renewing the ban on direct talks with Washington decreed in 2018, the supreme chief of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, criticized the previous administration of Trump for not having honored his promises.
In 2018, Trump removed the United States from the Tehran Nuclear Pact with the world powers and reimed the sanctions that paralyzed the Iranian economy.
A year later, Iran reacted by breaking the nuclear borders of the pact, accelerating the enrichment of uranium up to 60% purity, almost 90pc of grade of arms. He says that his nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes.
Despite the provocative words of the spokesperson for Baghaei, the influence of Tehran throughout the region has greatly weakened with its regional allies – known as the “resistance axis” – either dismantled or seriously injured since The start of the Hamas -Israel conflict in Gaza and the fall of Bashar Al -Assad in Syria in December.
The axis not only includes Hamas but also Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthis in Yemen and various Shiite armed groups in Iraq and Syria.
