TEHRAN (Iran News) – Forerign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has warned the United States against using the language of force when addressing the Iranian nation.
Amirabdollahian made the remarks in a late Saturday tweet in apparent reaction to recent accusations leveled against Iran by the US about a fictional plot to kill the former President Donald Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton.
“History ought to have taught the U.S. that language of threat against Iran and Iranians achieves nothing,” Iran’s top diplomat tweeted.
He added, “Futile attempts at deflection won’t allow the U.S. to evade responsibility for the thousands of Iranian and other victims of its involvement in terrorist crimes in our region.”
History ought to have taught the U.S. that language of threat against Iran and Iranians achieves nothing.
Futile attempts at deflection won’t allow the US to evade responsibility for the thousands of Iranian and other victims of its involvement in terrorist crimes in our region.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday charged a man identified as Shahram Poursafi with trying to arrange the killing of Bolton in retaliation for the January 2020 U.S. airstrike that martyred Iran’s legendary anti-terror commander Lieutenant Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
In the latest scenario, Poursafi has been cited as a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps who attempted to pay individuals in the United States in October 2021 a reward of $300,000 to carry out the plot in either Washington, DC, or Maryland.
Iran has brushed aside the “baseless fiction” of the U.S. government, accusing an Iranian national of plotting to assassinate former President Donald Trump’s notorious national security advisor John Bolton.
Sanctions against Iran can be lifted soon: Russian envoy
Meanwhile according to a Russian diplomat sanctions against Iran can be lifted soon, referring to the talks in Vienna for a possible return of the United States to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Permanent Representative of Russia to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said in a tweet on Sunday that sanctions against Iran can be lifted soon.
He wrote the tweet in response to a Twitter user who asked him if the West would finally decide to lift the sanctions against Iran, Russia, and other countries.
“I can’t say the same about anti-Russian #sanctions,” Ulyanov wrote, adding that anti-Russian sanctions are only partially associated with Ukraine.
“The West perceives independent policy of Russia as a strategic challenge and will hardly abandon the practice of sanctions,” he said.
Iran and the P4+1 recently resumed talks in Vienna, with indirect participation of the US, to finalize an agreement to revive the 2015 nuclear deal based on a proposal from the EU.
