Speaking in a detailed interview with local Iranian media on Sunday, head of diplomat Abbas Aragci pointed to the recent attacks by the Zionist regime on Iran, noting that it was the Islamic facility that decided to negotiate, and that responsibility was handed over to the foreign ministry.
He defended his and his team’s record in five rounds of indirect consultations with US envoy Steve Witkov, saying the country would have been attacked by a US-backed Zionist regime with no consent to speak.
“We believe that we not only lost anything in negotiations, but we also won a lot because our legitimacy for the Iranian people and the international community has been proven. If we don’t negotiate, we can argue that there would not have been a war.
The Minister continued to ask why people were so united and coherent during the war. He answered his question, “The other side was someone who was in favor of war because they (the people) saw that their establishment of Islam had done everything for them and spare no efforts to prevent war, and the other side was someone who was in favor of war. Our logic was very strong.
The Zionist regime fought a war of attack on Iran on June 13, attacking Iranian troops, nuclear and residential areas for 12 days, but the US carried out a military attack on three nuclear facilities in Iran, Natanz, Fordou and Isfahan on June 22.
Iranian troops carried out a powerful counterattack shortly after the attack. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Aerospace Force implemented 22 waves of retaliation missiles against the Zionist regime as part of Operation True Promise III, which caused significant losses to cities throughout the occupying territories.
In response to the US attack, Iranian forces fired waves of missiles at Aldead Air Force Base in Qatar, the largest US military base in West Asia.
The battle was suspended due to a ceasefire that came into effect on June 24th.
MNA