Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that Tehran is ready to establish joint security arrangements with neighbouring countries relying on the experience it gained from the wars imposed on the Islamic Republic.
"Iran extends its hand to its neighbors to establish such arrangements -- not from a position of weakness, but based on the experience of war,” he said on Thursday at the opening ceremony of the 40th International Conference on Islamic Unity.
“We know what war is and we know that when missiles and bombs land, they do not differentiate between the wishes of an Iranian mother and an Arab mother,” the state IRNA news agency quoted him as saying.
Defending Iran’s response to the U.S. strikes on Iran that originated from the regional states, President Pezeshkian also urged neighboring and regional Islamic states to stop providing their territory for attacks on other Islamic countries. Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are among countries in the Persian Gulf with U.S. military facilities.
He said defending Iran does not mean being hostile to neighbouring nations and Islamic states.
"No Islamic land should become a platform for aggression against another Islamic land, and no Islamic country should seek its security in the insecurity of its neighbour.”
Meanwhile, amid regional concerns over the escalation of tension between Iran and the U.S., the Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani arrived in Tehran on Thursday for talks with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi.
According to the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei, the visit is part of ongoing Iran-Qatar consultations aimed at expanding bilateral relations and strengthening regional peace and security.
“The Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister will hold discussions with Iranian officials on the continuation of Qatar's mediation efforts and initiatives, as well as other regional developments,” he said, referring to Qatar's efforts to prevent further escalation of conflict in the region.
The visit by the Qatari official, whose country hosts one of the major U.S. airbases in the Persian Gulf region, comes after a similar one by Omani and Pakistani officials earlier this week.
Iran has targeted U.S. military bases and allied intelligence facilities as well as U.S. interests in the region, including in Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraqi Kurdistan, using ballistic missiles and drones as a response seen as Tehran's right to defend itself under international law.
“The Iranian nation was oppressed, and defending its country is the right of every nation. Iran also exercised this right,” President Pezeshkian told participants of the conference in Tehran.
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The Iranian Army has again struck at U.S. bases in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates in retaliation for U.S. attacks on southern and western parts of Iran late on Tuesday, which reportedly killed 18 people and injured more than 100 others.
U.S. efforts to squeeze Iran’s economy through an oil blockade and sanctions are becoming increasingly difficult for Tehran to withstand, according to three senior Iranian sources. Washington is escalating pressure in hopes of securing concessions in future negotiations.
The Iranian Health Ministry said at least 18 people were killed and 142 others injured in U.S. airstrikes carried out between 30 August and 2 September.
The Iranian Army has again struck at U.S. bases in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates in retaliation for U.S. attacks on southern and western parts of Iran late on Tuesday, which reportedly killed 18 people and injured more than 100 others.
The U.S. has launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran, targeting Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) sites as Tehran retaliated against U.S. positions across the region, while Iranian officials said at least five people were killed and dozens wounded at a wedding near Sirik.
U.S. forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island on Sunday, with Tehran responding by launching ballistic missiles at two U.S. bases in Jordan in the first direct U.S.-Iran military escalation in weeks.
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