(22 Jun 2025)
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Istanbul, Turkey – 22 June 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Abbas Araghchi, Iranian Foreign Minister:
"The Islamic Republic of Iran condemns, in the strongest terms, the United States’ brutal military aggression against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities. It is an outrageous grave and unprecedented violation of the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations and International law. The warmongering and lawless administration in Washington is solely and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and far-reaching implications of its act of aggression."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Abbas Araghchi, Iranian Foreign Minister:
"There is no red line that they have not crossed. And the last one and the most dangerous one was happened only last night when they crossed a very big red line by attacking nuclear facilities. I don’t know how much room is left for diplomacy."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday said the US is "fully responsible" for the consequences of its strikes on Iran.
“The warmongering, a lawless administration in Washington is solely and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and far reaching implications of its act of aggression,” Araghchi said in a news briefing at a conference in Turkey.
The US military hit three sites in Iran and inserted itself into Israel’s effort to destroy Iran’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe.
US and Israeli officials have said that American stealth bombers and a 30,000-pound bunker buster bomb they alone can carry offered the best chance of destroying heavily fortified sites connected to the Iranian nuclear program buried deep underground.
Araghchi said that the strikes overnight have blown up any possibility of diplomacy with the Americans or Europeans.
He said that there is “no red line” that the US has not crossed in its recent actions against the Islamic Republic.
“And the last one and the most dangerous one was what happened only last night when they crossed a very big red line by attacking nuclear facilities only,” he said.
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