He Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkianwarned the Israeli Prime Minister this Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahuthat it does not enter into conflict with Iran and assured that the missile attack against Israel aims to achieve peace in the region. “This is only part of our power. Do not enter into a conflict with Iran,” Pezeshkian said on X shortly after his country launched a ballistic missile attack against Israel.
The Iranian president assured that the attack is “legitimate”was given in response to the “aggressions of the Zionist regime” and has as its “goal of achieving peace and security for Iran and the region”. “Netanyahu should know that Iran is not belligerentbut is firmly opposed to any threat,” stressed Pezeshkian, who took office at the end of July. “This action was in defense of the interests and citizens of Iran,” he insisted.
Pezeshkian won the early presidential elections in July with a message of rapprochement with the West, but he has been limited by events such as the assassination of the leader of HamasIsmail Haniyehin Tehran during his inauguration, among others.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched a missile attack against Israel on Tuesday in response to the assassinations of Haniyeh, Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah, and an Iranian general. “With the firing of dozens of ballistic missiles, targets have been hit in the heart of the occupied territories“, indicated the elite military body in a statement, in which it clarified that the operation is a response to the deaths of Haniyeh and Nasrallah. “We warn that if the Zionist regime responds militarily to this operation it will be counterattacked more forcefully“added the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
The Iranian Mission to the UN In a statement, he described the attack as a response “legal, rational and legitimate to the terrorist acts of the Zionist regime against Iranian citizens and interests and for infringing the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic.”
Iran thus responds to Haniyeh’s death in Tehran during the inauguration of Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian at the end of July and the assassination of Nasrallah and Brigadier General of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Abbas Nilforushan in Israeli bombings in Beirut last Friday.
