Iran’s Foreign Ministry has taken a swipe at the new US secretary of state for
the meddlesome comments he made against Tehran in the so-called new US strategy.
In a Monday statement, the Iranian foreign ministry said the cheap, baseless,
insulting and interventionist remarks made by Mike Pompeo and the accusations he
levelled against the great and civilized Iranian nation are indicative of US
officials’ despair and desperation in the face of the Iranian nation.
According to the statement, Pompeo’s remarks are also regarded as a cowardly
attempt to deflect the world public opinion from Washington’s illegal move (its
unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA) and its breach of obligations under the
nuclear deal, which is in contravention of international regulations and the UN
resolution proposed by the US and adopted unanimously.
"Pompeo’s remarks once again revealed the poor intelligence, weak oversight,
analytical backwardness and confusion in decision-making processes in the United
States, and showed radical and hawkish currents in the US neither know history,
nor can learn lessons from it,” said the statement.
"The American regime which, despite opposition by all countries in the world
except a handful of small regimes, has reneged on all its political, legal and
international obligations, is not in a position to set conditions for a major
country like Iran, which has made good on its commitments,” the statement read.
"The American regime must know that the United States’ evasion of law and
violation of its commitments not only will not create any rights for that regime
(the US), but puts the international responsibility for the consequences of its
breach of law on the shoulders of the officials of that regime as well as its
corrupt and mafia-linked supporters both at home and abroad, and this is while a
new scandal emerges every day before the world’s public opinion,” the statement
noted.
It also said that the United States is not entitled to tell Iran what policies
it should or should not adopt in its own region as all the problems facing the
Middle East region, including those in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the occupied
Palestine, Yemen and Afghanistan, all emanate from the interference and
encroachment of Washington and the medieval dictatorial governments of its
allies.
"An inherent feature of the United States’ colonialist regime is to support
terrorism, especially state terrorism. Terror groups such Al-Qaeda, ISIS, the
MKO, Jundallah and other Takfiri terrorist groups, which continue to survive
with American taxpayers’ money and with the support of incompetent systems in
the Middle East, will incontrovertibly be defeated, and the US government and
its allies will be disgraced,” the statement read.
"The fathers of Al-Qaeda and hundreds of other terrorist groups which have
jeopardized international peace and security, are not in a position to distort
the Islamic Republic of Iran’s stabilizing and anti-terrorism measures in the
region and in the whole world, and pursue its domineering illusions,” said the
statement.
According to the statement, those plotting coups against legal governments,
looting the riches of oppressed nations, massacring innocent and defenseless
women and children, violating international agreements and resolutions,
producing and using weapons of mass destruction, and violating the rights of
humans and minorities and people of colour in their countries, are in no
position to threaten independent nations that are standing to all these crimes
with glory and honour.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran is a system emanating from the Islamic Revolution
of Iranian people, who have stood up to, and emerged victorious, in the face of
all the wicked conspiracies of the US and its allies over the past four decades,
and will continue to survive from now on and make the United States’ new plots
go down in defeat,” read the statement.
"We advise the senior officials of the US, especially its secretary of state, to
take lessons from the fate of the United States’ past policies vis-à-vis the
Iranian nation, and stop its interventionist and failed measures and policies
which are seemingly aimed at driving a wedge between Iranian people and the
popular system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and not to bring more disgrace
upon themselves in the court of the world public opinion,” the statement added.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran rejects all the accusations and lies in this
so-called new strategy, and regards the US secretary of state’s brazen remarks
as gross interference in its domestic affairs and an illegal threat against a
member of the United Nations, and reserves the right to take legal action.”
"The responsibility for any hit-and-run, illegal and bullying measure against
the Iranian nation lies with the US government,” read the statement.