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[00:00:00]of the United States hostility towards the peace-seeking people of Iran, who will never compromise over their independence and sovereignty.

[00:00:11]The Islamic Republic of Iran continue to defend Iran's territory, sovereignty, security, and people by all means necessary against not just US military aggression, but also the reckless and unlawful actions of the Israeli regime.

[00:00:33]While President Trump was elected on a platform of putting an end to America's costly involvement of forever wars in our part of the world, he has betrayed not only Iran by abusing our commitment to diplomacy, but also deceived his own voters by submitting to the wishes of a wanted war criminal who has grown accustomed to exploiting the lives and wealth of American citizens to further the Israeli regime's objectives.

[00:01:08]The US act of aggression against Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities constitutes not only a flagrant breach of the UN charter, especially the prohibition of the use of force under article 2 paragraph 4 and obligation to respect the state's territorial integrity and sovereignty, but also a violation of UN Security Council resolution 2231.

[00:01:36]It cannot be emphasized enough how much of a devastating blow that the US, a permanent member of the security council has dealt to the global nonprololiferation regime.

[00:01:50]The Islamic Republic of Iran reminds the United Nations, the Security Council, the UN Secretary General, the International Atomic Energy A, the International Atomic Energy Agency and other relevant international bodies of their duty and responsibility to take urgent and decisive action in response to this breach of international law. Silence in the face of such blatant aggression will plunge the world into an unprecedented level of danger and chaos.

[00:02:29]Humanity has come too far aspicious to allow a lawless bully to take us back to the law of the jungle. The Islamic Republic of Iran calls on the Security Council to convene an emergency session to unequivocally condemn the criminal act of aggression by the United States against Iran and to hold the administration in Washington accountable for its violations of of fundamental principles of United Nations charter and of norms of international law.

[00:03:07]the responsibility of the IAEA and its director general who through who through evidence bias in favor of wararmongering parties pave the way for the current violence and bloodshed is now clearer than ever. We call on the IAA board of governors to immediately convene and carry out its legal responsibility in response to the dangerous US attack on Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities, all of which have been under the AY's full safeguards and monitoring.

[00:03:43]The world must not forget that it was the United States which in the midst of a process to forge a diplomatic outcome betrayed diplomacy by supporting the genocidal Israeli regime's launch of an illegal war of aggression on the Iranian nation.

[00:04:03]Not content with such malaine actions, the United States itself has now also opted for a dangerous military operation and aggression against the people of Iran. In doing so, the US administrations holds sole and full responsibility for the consequences of its actions, including the Islamic Republic of Iran's right to self-defense under the principles of the United Charter.

[00:04:33]In accordance with the UN charter and its provisions allowing a legitimate response in self-defense, Iran reserves all options to defend its security, interests, and people. Thank you very much.

[00:04:56]>> We will now be taking questions. We'd like to start with the Associated Press.

[00:05:02]Hold up.

[00:05:31]minister, are the doors for negotiation still open?

[00:05:40]>> Can you hear me now? Distinguished minister question is the door for negotiations still open.

[00:05:53]>> No translation.

[00:06:07]>> Interpreter please speak. Can you hear me, sir?

[00:06:12]Can you hear me, sir?

[00:06:16]In the English channel. Can you hear me?

[00:06:18]>> If I if I may just step in here and just translate real quick for my colleague.

[00:06:24]He's asking if there are still room for negotiations moving forward.

[00:06:31]>> It's all right now. You You can His translate is okay.

[00:06:44]negotiation doors still open to contact. What kind of damage has been incurred on the nuclear facilities? Is there any intermediary country like Turkey, like Saudi Arabia, like Qatar?

[00:07:00]Are you continuing your such activities on mediation? How do you see the process? Thank you.

[00:07:10]Well, I have been in touch with Iran. Of course, I still do not have exact information about the level of damages.

[00:07:24]Uh but I don't think uh it matters how much damages have been made.

[00:07:34]Attacking a nuclear facility by itself is an unforgivable violation of international law and should be condemned.

[00:07:48]Yesterday as I said I had discussion uh and talks with a number of uh foreign ministers of the region. Uh almost all of them are very much concerned and interested to pay role to end uh this aggression by by Israel. Of course, they were worried about a possible attack by the United States, but yesterday we were all uh talking about how to stop the Israeli aggression.

[00:08:25]Well, of course, the door for diplomacy should be always keep open, but this is not the case right now. My country has been under attack. under aggression and we have to respond based on our legitimate drive of self-defense and we will do that as long as needed and necessary.

[00:09:00]>> We'd now like to take question from Alazer.

[00:09:27]Thank you very much, Minister. So, uh you say that you need to respond right now, but we know that Iranians are uh known for their talents in negotiations in diplomacy and trade. what would be the conditions after responding for Iran to come back to a negotiation table uh maybe with the US as well and Turkey has been offering that Ankara can mediate for its trilateral between Turkey, US and Iran. Uh what would be your response to that because right now the US is technically uh involved in this conflict. Thank you.

[00:10:07]Well, I think it is irre irrelevant to ask Iran to return to diplomacy because we were in the middle of diplomacy.

[00:10:15]We were in the middle of talks with with the United States when Israelis blew it up. And again, we were in the middle of talks and negotiation with Europeans.

[00:10:31]happened only two days ago in Geneva when this time Americans decided to blow it up.

[00:10:40]So we were in diplomacy but we were but we were attacked militarily.

[00:10:53]So it was not Iran but the US who betrayed diplomacy.

[00:11:01]They betrayed negotiations.

[00:11:04]When at the middle of negotiations with us they gave green light to Israelis if not instructed them to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.

[00:11:22]I think they have proved that they are not men of diplomacy and they only understand the language of threat and force and this is very unfortunate.

[00:11:39]The United States showed that they have no respect to United Nation charter.

[00:11:48]They have no respect to international law.

[00:11:53]They have no respect to any international law regarding uh you know managing the board and facing challenges of the world.

[00:12:15]There is no red line that they have not crossed.

[00:12:18]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.

[00:12:31]I don't know how much room is left for diplomacy.

[00:12:36]We are now calculating the damages and as I said the damages are not only for our nuclear facilities. The damages are for the United Nation charter. It was not only Iran's facilities which was bombed. It was also the United Nations charter. It was also nonprololiferation regime and NPT which was bombed last night by Americans.

[00:13:05]And it was the rule of law and international law which was bumped.

[00:13:13]So now we have to see how much room is left for diplomacy and we will decide.

[00:13:20]>> I'd like to hand over to TRT World.

[00:13:29]>> Mr. minister. The US President Donald Trump warned that Iran must now make peace otherwise the future attacks he says uh will be far greater and much easier. So how is Tehran responding to death threats from Washington? Thank you.

[00:13:45]>> I think it's not up to Iran to respond to that. The whole international community should respond of such a clear threat against the United Nation charter.

[00:13:58]Iran has done nothing wrong.

[00:14:02]We don't we do not understand why Iran should be attacked for a false accusation that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons. It's now more than 20 years that we are trying to prove that our peaceful nucle uh peaceful nuclear program is in fact peaceful and would remain peaceful.

[00:14:29]We negotiated for a long time with the so-called P5+1 and we came to a deal which the whole world celebrated as an as an achievement of diplomacy and it then it was the US who withdrew from that deal and reimposed their sanctions and restarted their threats again. And we were negotiating with the same administration.

[00:14:56]Then all of a sudden sudden they decided to attack us first by Israelis then by themselves and now they are threatening us for more attacks.

[00:15:09]So it's not up to Iran but it's up to international community to condemn this to prevent this. Otherwise there will be no nothing left for the international law for the security uh at the world level.

[00:15:29]The security council should play its role should play its responsibility to prevent to condemn and prevent these kind of threats.

[00:15:40]We will certainly defend our interest.

[00:15:42]We will certainly defend our in territorial integrity, our sovereignty and our people.

[00:15:49]And I'm so glad that our people are now fully understand what injustice they are doing against the Iranian people. They are united and in solidarity with with the government and we stand firm against any aggression.

[00:16:08]Next, CNN Turk.

[00:16:17]Mr. Minister, how do you assess the West stance on Israel massacres? No one seems to mention Israel's allegedly illegal nuclear weapons. The German counselor even said, "Israel is doing the dirty work for us." So, what is your response?

[00:16:33]Thank you.

[00:16:37]Well, what should I say? You said everything that Iran is under attack by a nuclear armed superpower and and a nuclear armed regime and Iran as you know is an non-nuclear armed country that should be certainly condemned. If not, the whole nonprololiferation regime would be undermined and would be defeated.

[00:17:13]Iran is a committed member of NPT.

[00:17:19]But NPT is not able to protect us.

[00:17:24]So why a country like Iran or other countries who are interested to have a peaceful nuclear energy should rely on NPT for their uh peaceful activities.

[00:17:44]It is very unfortunate that Israel is doing as the German cons chancellor called a dirty job.

[00:17:56]And by the way, they supported that dirty job.

[00:18:02]It's a shame.

[00:18:05]They know that Israeli is doing a dirty job and they support it and they give it every right to do it and they call it defending its itself.

[00:18:20]It's very it's really a shame.

[00:18:27]Pardon?

[00:18:31]Well, I think I I'm not in a position to reveal what we are going to do in response to what Americans did last night.

[00:18:47]I just talked about the fact that NPT failed to protect Iran from and and its peaceful nuclear program. And this is a serious challenge.

[00:19:02]>> Next, we'd like to take a question from Ir if I can get a question from IRB.

[00:19:28]I'm a firmware and also net news agency.

[00:19:37]It is indicated that China is supporting Iran.

[00:19:44]How do you evaluate power with the USA and Israel? And can we learn your expectations about your relations with the Russian Federation?

[00:20:00]Well, there was a problem with the uh translation or or I think with the device it doesn't work properly. Uh I understood the last part of your question.

[00:20:12]Well, I'm going to Moscow this afternoon and I have a meeting with President Putin tomorrow morning.

[00:20:19]Russia is uh a friend of Iran and we enjoy uh uh strategic partnership and we always consult with each other and coordinate our positions. Russia has been a part and the participants of JCPOA.

[00:20:49]So they have been always a party to nuclear negotiations.

[00:20:55]And even in the past 2 three months that we were negotiating with uh with the United States, we always uh briefed our Russian friends uh about the latest uh of about any progress or lack of progress in our talks. Well, I will have serious consultations uh with the Russian president tomorrow and we continue to work with each other.

[00:21:32]Russia is also a permanent member of the security council uh and we know that they were trying together with China to introduce a resolution to the security council to for the secession of hostilities.

[00:21:52]uh obviously now the situation has been changed and I will have uh discussion with them that how it should be proceed.

[00:22:04]>> The final question from IRB if we can hand over the microphone to the gentleman right there. Thank you.

[00:22:26]Thank you. Yesterday, President Erdogan mentioned a mediation instrument. Can Turkey handle such a I had very productive meetings with the president of the Republic of Turkey yesterday and I also had contacts with some of the countries of the region, some of the countries of the region such as Turkey, indicating that they could be mediating so that the attacks from Israel could stop. I do believe that I'm going to start some actions and discussions about to prevent this American aggression.

[00:23:22]Turkey very definitely has condemned the Israeli attacks and also the countries of the region have also condemned these attacks. All the countries of this region and the Islamic countries are condemning the massacres and the killing of Israel.

[00:23:44]We as members of the US and the foreign ministers, we had a special discussion with the situation in Iran.

[00:23:56]was the chair of this session and in relation to condemning Israeli attacks, a statement was shared to end this attack and they indicated that they were on our side.

[00:24:09]The attack last year was a big murder. It was not just an attack against Iran but also the laws and the provisions of the United Nations violated was also damaged.

[00:24:39]Thus, this was known to international by America. We believe that the United Nations should see this as a threat. The behavior is threatening the world.

[00:24:58]It is also a serious bottleneck for the international and we have important problems and the region because of creating an important damage last night once again aims in being armed and they have actually been in a crisis because of received support from this intervention of America is actually to save the sanist regime and maybe to save the prime minister specifically of the sanist regime. This was the reason why America and this shows that the White House is under the influence of this individual called Netanyahu and this is a shame for the all American citizens.

[00:26:12]We continue to defend our country in a heroic manner. Our armed forces, our people with high level confidence and with high level of motivation is ready to defend itself.

[00:26:33]>> The Iranian people's national honor has been demonstrated to win this market. They will defend themselves. We will never take a step back from our own law, from our honor.

[00:26:48]have time for one or two more questions.

[00:26:50]I'd like to hand over to Bloomberg Habukur.

[00:27:05]>> Mr. Minister, thank you very much for doing this. And I'll come from Kenberg HD. You said attacks at nuclear facilities are red line and you are calculating your response. So here is the question. What are the options? Are you going to retaliate at US basis in the region or are you going to considering to close the straight of Hermus? And one more question as well two times at your while you are at your at the table of negotiation uh Israel and US attacked your soil. So do you still have the same level of trust to western diplomacy? Thank you.

[00:27:46]There are a variety of options available to us and that's it.

[00:27:56]We never trusted Western countries when we negotiated them and there are now even more reasons why we shouldn't trust them at all. Of course, the way for diplomacy should be always remained open, but as I said, we are not in the situation right now to decide how to engage in diplomacy once again and with whom.

[00:28:31]So, let's wait for our response first.

[00:28:38]And when the aggression is ended, we decide how to engage in diplomacy.

[00:28:46]Once again, >> next over to NTV.

[00:28:59]>> Mr. Minister, thank you. Um, I would just would like to ask a quick question.

[00:29:05]You had many uh dialogues with uh Mr. Steve Vitkov, the US representative during the negotiations.

[00:29:15]Did he call you after the attack? Who you talk with? Did you ever talk with any western countries or United States?

[00:29:23]Did they call you? Thank you.

[00:29:25]>> Well, my talks with Mr. Vitkov was indirect uh through uh the Omani foreign minister as intermediator to whom I'm very grateful uh and when the talks were stopped because of the US aggression uh we are still receiving messages from Americans through uh different channels Oman in particular and there are also others who are passing the messages of the United States to us yesterday for a briefing on the latest developments uh on the ground and of course uh on uh diplomatic process because I came here from Geneva where we at uh our first ministerial meeting of Iran E3 and then I had here yesterday uh lots of uh useful important meetings with the foreign ministers of our region and we discussed about different initiatives and ideas existed for a peaceful settlement of this question. But as all of you know, we suddenly faced with the aggression by American forces to our nuclear facilities.

[00:31:13]The Islamic Republic of Iran condemns in the strongest terms the United States brutal military aggression against Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities.

[00:31:26]It is an outrageous, grave, and unprecedented violation of the fundamental principles of the charter of the United Nations and international law. The wararmongering and lawless administration in Washington is solely and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and farreaching implement implications of its act of aggression.

[00:31:55]The US military attack on the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of a UN member state carried out with genocidal Israeli regime carried out in collusion with the genocidal Israeli regime has once again revealed the extent of the United States hostility towards the peace-seeking people of Iran who will never compromise. over their independence and sovereignty.

[00:32:28]The Islamic Republic of Iran continue to defend Iran's territory, sovereignty, security, and people by all means necessary against not just US military aggression, but also the reckless and unlawful actions of the Israeli regime.

[00:32:49]While President Trump was elected on a platform of putting an end to America's costly involvement of forever wars in our part of the world, he has betrayed not only Iran by abusing our commitment to diplomacy, but also deceived his own voters by submitting to the wishes of a wanted war criminal who has grown accustomed to exploiting the lives and wealth of American citizens to further the Israeli regime's objectives.

[00:33:25]The US act of aggression against Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities constitutes not only a flagrant breach of the UN charter, especially the prohibition of the use of force under article 2 paragraph 4 and the obligation to respect the state's territorial integrity and sovereignty, but also a violation of UN Security Council resolution 2231.

[00:33:52]It cannot be emphasized enough how much of a devastating blow that the US, a permanent member of the security council has dealt to the global nonprololiferation regime.

[00:34:07]The Islamic Republic of Iran reminds the United Nations, the Security Council, the UN Secretary General, the International Atomic Energy A, the International Atomic Energy Agency and other relevant international bodies of their duty and responsibility to take urgent and decisive action in response to this breach of international law. Silence in the face of such blatant aggression will plunge the world into an unprecedented level of danger and chaos.

[00:34:46]Humanity has come too far as aspicious to allow a lawless bully to take us back to the law of the jungle. The Islamic Republic of Iran calls on the Security Council to convene an emergency session to unequivocally condemn the criminal act of aggression by the United States against Iran and to hold the administration in Washington accountable for its violations of of fundamental principles of United Nations charter and of norms of international law.

[00:35:23]the responsibility of the IAEA and its director general who through who through evidence bias in favor of wararmongering parties pave the way for the current violence and bloodshed is now clearer than ever. We call on the IAA board of governors to immediately convene and carry out its legal responsibility in response to the dangerous US attack on Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities, all of which have been under the AY's full safeguards and monitoring.

[00:35:59]The world must not forget that it was the United States which in the midst of a process to forge a diplomatic outcome betrayed diplomacy but supporting the genocidal is Israeli regime's launch of an illegal war of aggression on the Iranian nation.

[00:36:19]Not content with such mealain actions, the United States itself has now also opted for a dangerous military operation and aggression against the people of Iran.

[00:36:33]In doing so, the US administrations holds sole and full responsibility for the consequences of its actions, including the Islamic Republic of Iran's right to self-defense under the principles of the United Charter.

[00:36:50]In accordance with the UN charter and its provisions allowing a legitimate response in self-defense, Iran reserves all options to defend its security, interests, and people. Thank you very much.

[00:37:12]>> We will now be taking questions. We'd like to start with the Associated Press.

[00:37:23]Okay.

[00:37:33]Minister, are the doors for negotiation still open?

[00:37:56]>> Can you hear me now? Distinguished minister question is the door for negotiations still open.

[00:38:10]>> No translation.

[00:38:23]>> Interpreter please speak.

[00:38:26]Can you hear me, sir?

[00:38:28]Can you hear me, sir?

[00:38:32]In the English channel. Can you hear me?

[00:38:35]>> If I if I may just step in here and just translate real quick for my colleague.

[00:38:40]He's asking if there are still room for negotiations moving forward.

[00:38:47]>> It's all right now. You can turn. His translate is okay.

[00:39:01]negotiation doors still open to contact. What kind of damage has been incurred on the nuclear facilities? Is there any intermediary country like Turkey, like Saudi Arabia, like Qatar?

[00:39:17]Are you continuing your such activities of mediation? How do you see the process? Thank you.

[00:39:27]Well, I have been in touch with Iran. Of course, I still do not have exact information about the level of damages.

[00:39:40]Uh but I don't think uh it matters how much damages have been made.

[00:39:50]Attacking a nuclear facility by itself is an unforgivable violation of international law and should be condemned.

[00:40:05]Yesterday as I said I had discussion uh and talks with a number of uh foreign ministers of the region.

[00:40:14]Uh almost all of them are very much concerned and interested to pay role to end uh this aggression by by Israel. Of course they were worried about a possible attack by the United States.

[00:40:33]But yesterday we were all uh talking about how to stop the Israeli aggression.

[00:40:42]Well, of course, the door for diplomacy should be always keep open. But this is not the case right now. My country has been under attack, under aggression, and we have to respond based on our legitimate drive of self-defense, and we will do that as long as needed and necessary.

[00:41:16]>> We'd now like to take question from Al Jazzer.

[00:41:43]Thank you very much, Minister. So, uh you say that you need to respond right now, but we know that Iranians are uh known for their talents in negotiations in diplomacy and trade. what would be the conditions after responding for Iran to come back to a negotiation table uh maybe with the US as well and Turkey has been offering that Ankara can mediate for its trilateral between Turkey, US and Iran. Uh what would be your response to that because right now the US is technically uh involved in this conflict. Thank you.

[00:42:23]Well, I think it is irre irrelevant to ask Iran to return to diplomacy because we were in the middle of diplomacy.

[00:42:32]We were in the middle of talks with with the United States when Israelis blew it up. And again, we were in the middle of talks and negotiation with Europeans. happened only two days ago in Geneva when this time Americans decided to blow it up.

[00:42:56]So we were in diplomacy but we were but we were attacked militarily.

[00:43:09]So it was not Iran but the US who betrayed diplomacy.

[00:43:18]They betrayed negotiations.

[00:43:21]When at the middle of negotiations with us they gave green light to Israelis if not instructed them to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.

[00:43:38]I think they have proved that they are not men of diplomacy and they only understand the language of threat and force and this is very unfortunate.

[00:43:55]The United States showed that they have no respect to United Nation charter.

[00:44:05]They have no respect to international law.

[00:44:09]They have no respect to any international law regarding uh you know managing the board and facing challenges of the world.

[00:44:31]There is no red line that they have not crossed.

[00:44:34]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.

[00:44:48]I don't know how much room is left for diplomacy.

[00:44:53]We are now calculating the damages and as I said the damages are not only for our nuclear facilities. The damages are for the United Nation charter. It was not only Iran's facilities which was bombed. It was also the United Nations charter. It was also nonproliferation regime and NPT which was bombed last night by Americans.

[00:45:21]And it was the rule of law and international law which was bumped. So now we have to see how much room is left for diplomacy and we will decide.

[00:45:36]>> I'd like to hand over to TRT World.

[00:45:45]>> Mr. minister. The US President Donald Trump warned that Iran must now make peace otherwise the future attacks he says uh will be far greater and much easier. So how is Tehran responding to death threats from Washington? Thank you.

[00:46:02]>> I think it's not up to Iran to respond to that. The whole international community should respond of such a clear threat against the United Nation charter.

[00:46:14]Iran has done nothing wrong.

[00:46:18]We don't we do not understand why Iran should be attacked for a false accusation that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons. It's now more than 20 years that we are trying to prove that our peaceful nucle uh peaceful nuclear program is in fact peaceful and would remain peaceful.

[00:46:45]We negotiated for a long time with the so-called P5+1 and we came to a deal which the whole world celebrated as an as an achievement of diplomacy and it then it was the US who withdrew from that deal and reimposed their sanctions and restarted their threats again. And we were negotiating with the same administration.

[00:47:13]Then all of a sudden sudden they decided to attack us first by Israelis then by themselves and now they are threatening us for more attacks.

[00:47:26]So it's not up to Iran but it's up to international community to condemn this to prevent this. Otherwise there would be no nothing left for the international law for the security uh at the world level.

[00:47:46]The security council should play its role should play its responsibility to prevent to condemn and prevent these kind of threats.

[00:47:56]We will certainly defend our interest.

[00:47:59]We will certainly defend our in territorial integrity, our sovereignty and our people.

[00:48:05]And I'm so glad that our people are now fully understand what injustice they are doing against the Iranian people. They are united and in solidarity with with the government and we stand firm against any aggression.

[00:48:25]Next, CNN Turk.

[00:48:34]Mr. Minister, how do you assess the West's stance on Israel massacres? No one seems to mention Israel's allegedly illegal nuclear weapons. The German counselor even said, "Israel is doing the dirty work for us." So, what is your response? Thank you.

[00:48:53]Well, what should I say? You said everything that Iran is under attack by a nuclear armed superpower and and a nuclear armed regime and Iran as you know is an non-nuclear armed country that should be certainly condemned. If not, the whole non-prololiferation regime would be undermined and would be defeated.

[00:49:30]Iran is a committed member of NPT.

[00:49:35]But NPT is not able to protect us.

[00:49:41]So why a country like Iran or other countries who are interested to have a peaceful nuclear energy should rely on NPT for their uh peaceful activities.

[00:50:00]It is very unfortunate that Israel is doing as the German cons chancellor called a dirty job.

[00:50:13]And by the way, they supported that dirty job.

[00:50:19]It's a shame.

[00:50:21]They know that Israeli is doing a dirty job and they support it and they give it every right to do it and they call it defending its itself.

[00:50:37]It's very it's really a shame.

[00:50:44]Pardon?

[00:50:48]Well, I think I I'm not in a position to reveal what we are going to do in response to what Americans did last night.

[00:51:03]I just talked about the fact that NPT failed to protect Iran from and and its peaceful nuclear program. And this is a serious challenge.

[00:51:18]>> Next, we'd like to take a question from IRB.

[00:51:45]I'm affirmed and also net news agency.

[00:51:53]It is indicated that China is supporting Iran.

[00:52:01]How do you uh evaluate the turn power with the USA and Israel? And can we learn your expectations about your relations with the Russian Federation?

[00:52:17]>> Well, there was a problem with the uh translation or or I think with the device it doesn't work properly. Uh I understood the last part of your question.

[00:52:28]Well, I'm going to Moscow this afternoon and I have a meeting with President Putin tomorrow morning.

[00:52:36]Russia is uh a friend of Iran and we enjoy uh uh strategic partnership and we always consult with each other and coordinate our positions.

[00:52:59]Russia has been a part and the participants of JCPOA.

[00:53:05]So they have been always a party to nuclear negotiations.

[00:53:12]And even in the past 2 3 months that we were negotiating with uh with the United States, we always uh briefed our Russian friends uh about the latest uh of about any progress or lack of progress in our talks. Well, I will have serious consultations uh with the Russian president tomorrow and we continue to work with each other.

[00:53:49]Russia is also a permanent member of the security council uh and we know that they were trying together with China to introduce a resolution to the security council to for the secession of hostilities.

[00:54:08]uh obviously now the situation has been changed and I will have uh discussion with them that how it should be proceed.

[00:54:20]>> The final question from IRB if we can hand over the microphone to the gentleman right there. Thank you.

[00:54:43]Thank you. Yesterday, President Erdogan mentioned a mediation instrument. Can Turkey handle such a I had very productive meetings with the president of the Republic of Turkey yesterday and I also had contacts with some of the countries of the region.

[00:55:14]Some of the countries of the region such as Turkey, indicating that they could be mediating so that the attacks from Israel could stop. I do believe that I'm going to start some actions and discussions about to prevent this American aggression.

[00:55:38]Turkey very definitely has condemned the Israeli attacks and also the countries of the region have also condemned these attacks. All the countries of this region and the Islamic countries are condemning the massacres and the killing of Israel.

[00:56:00]We as members of the US and the foreign ministers, we had a special meeting about the situation in Iran.

[00:56:12]UK was the chair of this session and in relation to condemning Israeli attacks, they a statement was shared to end this attack and they indicated that they were on our side.

[00:56:26]The attack last night was a big murder. It was not just an attack against Iran but also the laws and the provisions of the United Nations violated was also damaged.

[00:56:55]Thus, this was known to international by America. We believe the United Nations should see this as a threat. The behavior is threatening the world.

[00:57:14]It is also a serious bottleneck for the international and we have important problems and region because of creating an important damage last night once again Israel aims in being armed and they have actually been in a crisis because of Iran and visiting received support from America and this intervention of America is actually to save the sanist regime and maybe to save the prime minister specifically of the sanist regime. This was the reason why America and this shows that the White House is under the influence of this individual called Netanyahu. And this is a shame for the all American citizens.

[00:58:29]We continue to defend our country in a heroic manner. our armed forces, our people with high levels of self-confidence and with high level of motivation is ready to defend itself. The Iranian people's national honor has been demonstrated to win this market. They will defend themselves. We will never take a step back from our own law from our honor.

[00:59:04]>> We do have time for one or two more questions. I'd like to hand over to Bloomberg.

[00:59:22]Mr. Minister, thank you very much for doing this and I'll come from Kenberg HD. You said attacks at nuclear facilities are red line and you are calculating your response. So here is the question. What are the options? Are you going to retaliate at US bases in the region or are you going to considering to close the straight of Hermus? And one more question as well, two times at your while you are at your at the table of negotiation uh Israel and US attacked your soil. So do you still have the same level of trust to western diplomacy? Thank you.

[01:00:02]There are a variety of options available to us and that's it.

[01:00:12]We never trusted Western countries when we negotiated them and there are now even more reasons why we shouldn't trust them at all. Of course, the way for diplomacy should be always remained open, but as I said, we are not in the situation right now to decide how to engage in diplomacy once again and with whom.

[01:00:47]So, let's wait for our response first.

[01:00:54]And when the aggression is ended, we decide how to engage in diplomacy once again.

[01:01:04]Next, over to NTV.

[01:01:16]>> Mr. Minister, thank you. Um, I would just would like to ask a quick question.

[01:01:21]You had many uh dialogues with uh Mr. Steve Vitkov, the US representative during the negotiations.

[01:01:31]Did he call you after the attack? Who you talk with? Did you ever talk with any Western countries or United States?

[01:01:39]Did they call you? Thank you.

[01:01:41]>> Well, my talks with Mr. Vitkov was indirect uh through uh the Omani foreign minister as intermediator to whom I'm very grateful uh and when the talks were stopped because of the US aggression uh we are still receiving messages from Americans through uh different channels Oman in particular and there are also others who are passing the messages of the United States to us yesterday for a briefing on the latest developments uh on the ground and of course uh on uh diplomatic process because I came here from Geneva.

[01:02:43]where we had uh our first ministerial meeting of Iran E3.

[01:02:50]And then I had here yesterday uh lots of uh useful important meetings with the foreign ministers of our region and we discussed about different initiatives and ideas existed for a peaceful settlement of this question. But as all of you know, we suddenly faced with the aggression by American forces to our nuclear facilities.

[01:03:29]The Islamic Republic of Iran condemns in the strongest terms the United States brutal military aggression against Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities.

[01:03:42]It is an outrageous, grave, and unprecedented violation of the fundamental principles of the charter of the United Nations and international law. The wararmongering and lawless administration in Washington is solely and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and farreaching implement implications of its act of aggression.

[01:04:12]The US military attack on the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of a UN member state carried out with genocidal Israeli regime carried out in collusion with the genocidal Israeli regime has once again revealed the extent of the United States hostility towards the peace-seeking people of Iran.

[01:04:39]who will never compromise over their independence and sovereignty.

[01:04:44]The Islamic Republic of Iran continue to defend Iran's territory, sovereignty, security, and people by all means necessary against not just US military aggression, but also the reckless and unlawful actions of the Israeli regime.

[01:05:06]While President Trump was elected on a platform of putting an end to America's costly involvement of forever wars in our part of the world, he has betrayed not only Iran by abusing our commitment to diplomacy, but also deceived his own voters by submitting to the wishes of a wanted war criminal who has grown accustomed to exploiting the lives and wealth of American citizens to further the Israeli regime's objectives.

[01:05:41]The US act of aggression against Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities constitutes not only a flagrant breach of the UN charter, especially the prohibition of the use of force under article 2 paragraph 4 and the obligation to respect the state's territorial integrity and sovereignty, but also a violation of UN Security Council resolution 2231.

[01:06:09]It cannot be emphasized enough how much of a devastating blow that the US, a permanent member of the security council has dealt to the global nonprololiferation regime.

[01:06:23]The Islamic Republic of Iran reminds the United Nations, the Security Council, the UN Secretary General, the International Atomic Energy A, the International Atomic Energy Agency and other relevant international bodies of their duty and responsibility to take urgent and decisive action in response to this breach of international law. Silence in the face of such blatant aggression will plunge the world into an unprecedented level of danger and chaos.

[01:07:02]Humanity has come too far as aspicious to allow a lawless bully to take us back to the law of the jungle.

[01:07:11]The Islamic Republic of Iran calls on the Security Council to convene an emergency session to unequivocally condemn the criminal act of aggression by the United States against Iran and to hold the administration in Washington accountable for its violations of of fundamental principles of United Nations charter and of norms of international law.

[01:07:39]the the responsibility of the IAEA and its director general who through who through evidence bias in favor of wararmongering parties pave the way for the current violence and bloodshed is now clearer than ever. We call on the IAA board of governors to immediately convene and carry out its legal responsibility in response to the dangerous US attack on Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities, all of which have been under the AY's full safeguards and monitoring.

[01:08:16]The world must not forget that it was the United States which in the midst of a process to forge a diplomatic outcome betrayed diplomacy but supporting the genocidal is Israeli regime's launch of an illegal war of aggression on the Iranian nation.

[01:08:36]Not content with such mealain actions, the United States itself has now also opted for a dangerous military operation and aggression against the people of Iran.

[01:08:49]In doing so, the US administrations holds sole and full responsibility for the consequences of its actions, including the Islamic Republic of Iran's right to self-defense under the principles of the United Charter.

[01:09:06]In accordance with the UN charter and its provisions allowing a legitimate response in self-defense, Iran reserves all options to defend its security, interests, and people. Thank you very much.

[01:09:29]>> We will now be taking questions. We'd like to start with the Associated Press.

[01:09:39]Go over here.

[01:10:04]Minister, are the doors for negotiation still open?

[01:10:13]>> Can you hear me now?

[01:10:15]>> Distinguished minister, the question is the door for negotiations still open.

[01:10:26]No translation.

[01:10:40]interpreter, please speak.

[01:10:42]>> Can you hear me, sir?

[01:10:45]Can you hear me, sir?

[01:10:49]>> In the English channel. Can you hear me?

[01:10:51]>> If I if I may just step in here and just translate real quick for my colleague.

[01:10:57]He's asking if there are still room for negotiations moving forward.

[01:11:04]>> It's all right. Now, you can translate is okay.

[01:11:22]What kind of damage has been incurred on the nuclear facilities? Is there any intermediary country like Turkey, like Saudi Arabia, like Qatar? Are you continuing your such activities of mediation? How do you see the process?

[01:11:38]Thank you.

[01:11:43]>> Well, I have been in touch with Thran, of course. I still do not have exact information about the level of damages.

[01:11:57]Uh but I don't think uh it matters how much damages have been made.

[01:12:07]Attacking a nuclear facility by itself is an unforgivable violation of international law and should be condemned.

[01:12:21]Yesterday as I said I had discussion uh and talks with a number of uh foreign ministers of the region.

[01:12:31]Uh almost all of them are very much concerned and interested to pay role to end uh this aggression by by Israel. Of course, they were worried about a possible attack by the United States, but yesterday we were all uh talking about how to stop the Israeli aggression.

[01:12:58]Well, of course, the door for diplomacy should be always keep open, but this is not the case right now. My country has been under attack. under aggression and we have to respond based on our legitimate drive of self-defense and we will do that as long as needed and necessary.

[01:13:33]>> We'd now like to take question from Al Jazzer.

[01:14:00]Thank you very much, Minister. So, uh you say that you need to respond right now, but we know that Iranians are uh known for their talents in negotiations in diplomacy and trade. what would be the conditions after responding for Iran to come back to a negotiation table uh maybe with the US as well and Turkey has been offering that Ankara can mediate for its trilateral between Turkey, US and Iran. Uh what would be your response to that because right now the US is technically uh involved in this conflict. Thank you.

[01:14:40]Well, I think it is irre irrelevant to ask Iran to return to diplomacy because we were in the middle of diplomacy.

[01:14:48]We were in the middle of talks with with the United States when Israelis blew it up. And again, we were in the middle of talks and negotiation with Europeans. happened only two days ago in Geneva when this time Americans decided to blow it up.

[01:15:12]So we were in diplomacy but we were but we were attacked militarily.

[01:15:26]So it was not Iran but the US who betrayed diplomacy.

[01:15:34]They betrayed negotiations.

[01:15:37]When at the middle of negotiations with us they gave green light to Israelis if not instructed them to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.

[01:15:55]I think they have proved that they are not men of diplomacy and they only understand the language of threat and force and this is very unfortunate.

[01:16:12]The United States showed that they have no respect to United Nation charter.

[01:16:21]They have no respect to international law.

[01:16:26]They have no respect to any international law regarding uh you know managing the board and facing challenges of the world.

[01:16:48]There is no red line that they have not crossed.

[01:16:51]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.

[01:17:04]I don't know how much room is left for diplomacy.

[01:17:09]We are now calculating the damages and as I said the damages are not only for our nuclear facilities. The damages are for the United Nation charter. It was not only Iran's facilities which was bombed. It was also the United Nations charter. It was also nonprololiferation regime and NPT which was bombed last night by Americans.

[01:17:38]And it was the rule of law and international law which was bumped. So now we have to see how much room is left for diplomacy and we will decide.

[01:17:53]>> I'd like to hand over to TRT World.

[01:18:02]>> Mr. minister. The US President Donald Trump warned that Iran must now make peace otherwise the future attacks he says uh will be far greater and much easier. So how is Tehran responding to death threats from Washington? Thank you.

[01:18:18]>> I think it's not up to Iran to respond to that. The whole international community should respond of such a clear threat against the United Nation charter.

[01:18:31]Iran has done nothing wrong.

[01:18:35]We don't we do not understand why Iran should be attacked for a false accusation that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons. It's now more than 20 years that we are trying to prove that our peaceful nucle uh peaceful nuclear program is in fact peaceful and would remain peaceful.

[01:19:02]We negotiated for a long time with the so-called P5+1 and we came to a deal which the whole world celebrated as an as an achievement of diplomacy and it then it was the US who withdrew from that deal and reimposed their sanctions and restarted their threats again. And we were negotiating with the same administration.

[01:19:29]Then all of a sudden sudden they decided to attack us first by Israelis then by themselves and now they are threatening us for more attacks.

[01:19:42]So it's not up to Iran but it's up to international community to condemn this to prevent this. Otherwise there would be no nothing left for the international law for the security uh at the world level.

[01:20:02]The security council should play its role should play its responsibility to prevent to condemn and prevent these kind of threats.

[01:20:13]We will certainly defend our interest.

[01:20:15]We will certainly defend our in territorial integrity, our sovereignty and our people.

[01:20:21]And I'm so glad that our people are now fully understand what injustice they are doing against the Iranian people. They are united and in solidarity with with the government and we stand firm against any aggression.

[01:20:41]Next, CNN Turk.

[01:20:50]Mr. Minister, how do you assess the West's stance on Israel massacres? No one seems to mention Israel's allegedly illegal nuclear weapons. The German counselor even said, "Israel is doing the dirty work for us." So, what is your response? Thank you.

[01:21:10]Well, what should I say? You said everything that Iran is under attack by a nuclear armed superpower and and a nuclear armed regime and Iran as you know is an non-nuclear armed country that should be certainly condemned. If not, the whole non-prololiferation regime would be undermined and would be defeated.

[01:21:46]Iran is a committed member of NPT.

[01:21:52]But NPT is not able to protect us.

[01:21:57]So why a country like Iran or other countries who are interested to have a peaceful nuclear energy should rely on NPT for their uh peaceful activities.

[01:22:17]It is very unfortunate that Israel is doing as the German cons chancellor called a dirty job.

[01:22:29]And by the way, they supported that dirty job.

[01:22:35]It's a shame.

[01:22:38]They know that Israeli is doing a dirty job and they support it and they give it every right to do it and they call it defending its itself.

[01:22:53]It's very it's really a shame.

[01:23:00]Pardon?

[01:23:04]Well, I think I I'm not in a position to reveal what we are going to do in response to what Americans did last night.

[01:23:20]I just talked about the fact that NPT failed to protect Iran from and and its peaceful nuclear program. And this is a serious challenge.

[01:23:35]>> Next, we'd like to take a question from Ir.

[01:23:50]If I can get a question from IRIB.

[01:24:01]>> I'm a friend and also net news agency.

[01:24:10]It is indicated that China is supporting Iran.

[01:24:17]How do you uh evaluate the turn power with the USA and Israel? And can we learn your expectations about your relations with the Russian Federation?

[01:24:33]>> Well, there was a problem with the uh translation or or I think with the device it doesn't work properly. Uh I understood the last part of your question.

[01:24:45]Well, I'm going to Moscow this afternoon and I have a meeting with President Putin tomorrow morning.

[01:24:52]Russia is uh friend of Iran and we enjoy uh uh strategic partnership and we always consult with each other and coordinate our positions.

[01:25:15]Russia has been a part and the participants of JCPOA.

[01:25:22]So they have been always a party to nuclear negotiations.

[01:25:28]And even in the past 2 three months that we were negotiating with uh with the United States, we always uh briefed our Russian friends uh about the latest uh of about any progress or lack of progress in our talks. Well, I will have serious consultations uh with the Russian president tomorrow and we continue to work with each other.

[01:26:05]Russia is also a permanent member of the security council uh and we know that they were trying together with China to introduce a resolution to the security council to for the secession of hostilities.

[01:26:24]uh obviously now the situation has been changed and I will have uh discussion with them that how it should be proceed.

[01:26:37]>> The final question from IRB if we can hand over the microphone to the gentleman right there. Thank you.

[01:26:59]Thank you. Yesterday, President Erdogan mentioned a mediation instrument. Can Turkey handle such a I had very productive meetings with the president of the Republic of Turkey yesterday and I also had contacts with some of the countries of the region, some of the countries of the region such as Turkey, indicating that they could be mediating so that the attacks from Israel could stop. I do believe that I'm going to start some actions and discussions about to prevent this American aggression.

[01:27:55]Turkey very definitely has condemned the Israeli attacks and also the countries of the region have also condemned these attacks. All the countries of this region and the Islamic countries are uh condemning the massacres and the killing of Israel.

[01:28:17]We as members of the US and the foreign ministers, we had a special meeting about the situation in Iran.

[01:28:28]UK was the chair of this session and in relation to condemning Israeli attacks.

[01:28:35]The a statement was shared to end this attack and they indicated that they were on our side. The attack last night was a big murder. It was not just an attack against Iran but also the laws and the provisions of the United Nations was also damaged.

[01:29:12]Thus, this was prone to international by America. We believe the United Nations should see this as a threat. The behavior is threatening the world.

[01:29:31]It is also a serious bottleneck for the international and we have important problems and the region because of creating an important damage last night once again Israel aims been armed and they have actually been in a crisis because of Iran and received support from and this intervention of America is actually to save the sanist regime and maybe to save the prime minister specifically of the sanist regime. This was the reason why America and this shows that the white is under the influence of this individual called Netanyahu. And this is a shame for the all American citizens.

[01:30:45]We continue to defend our country in a heroic manner. Our armed forces, our people with high levels of self-confidence and with high level of motivation is ready to defend itself.

[01:31:06]>> The Iranian people's national honor has been demonstrated to win this market. They will defend themselves. We will never take a step back from our own law, from our honor.

[01:31:21]have time for one or two more questions.

[01:31:23]I'd like to hand over to Bloomberg Habuk.

[01:31:38]>> Mr. Minister, thank you very much for doing this. And I'll come from Kenberg, HD. You said attacks at nuclear facilities are red line and you are calculating your response. So here is the question. What are the options? Are you going to retaliate at US basis in the region or are you going to considering to close the straight of Hermus? And one more question as well.

[01:32:02]two times at your while you are at your at the table of negotiation.