🇮🇷⚔️🇮🇱🇺🇸 Iran prepared for long war against US, Israel — Tehran University Professor Marandi

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🚨🇷🇺Russian Foreign Ministry calls US and Israeli attack on Iran an 'IRRESPONSIBLE MOVE'

Other statements:

◻️The ministry described the US and Israeli bombing of Iran as a premeditated and unprovoked act of armed aggression

◻️The responsibility for the negative consequences of this man-made crisis lies entirely with the US and Israel

◻️The motives behind the US and Israeli attacks on Iran have nothing to do with the preservation of non-proliferation

◻️The US and Israel cannot fail to understand that their actions in escalating the situation in the Middle East push the region towards acquiring new weapons

◻️Moscow expresses concern over the serial nature of destabilizing US strikes on the international legal foundations of the global order

◻️Russia demands the immediate return of the situation around Iran to a diplomatic resolution

◻️Russia is ready to assist in finding peaceful solutions in the Middle East based on international law and mutual respect

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🇮🇷 Iran will withstand US-Israeli regime change attempt – expert

📍 While Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu make no secret of trying to foment a popular uprising in Iran, their plans are unlikely to succeed, Mehran Kamrava, professor of government at Georgetown University Qatar, tells Sputnik.

💬 “By all objective indications, the Islamic Republic will be remaining intact. The Iranians have been counting on a prolonged war of attrition,” Kamrava says.

🟠 Iran’s response to the US-Israeli aggression, he notes, has been “massive and widespread,” with the Iranian strikes hitting a multitude of targets in an apparent effort to inflict as much damage as possible.

💬 “Iranians have hit multiple locations. True to their word, they have not backed down. They did say they would attack multiple locations, and they have hit places like Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait, Bahrain, and of course, Qatar,” Kamrava remarks.

🟠 Iran, he explains, is now going to try and upset the US’ and Israel’s calculations by forcing them to take much more losses than they might be willing to endure.

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🇮🇷🗣 Iran won’t stop until US feels the pain – expert

👉 Iran intends to inflict at least a few hundred casualties upon the US military as it realizes that the US will continue attacking until being forced to pay a significant cost, Foad Izadi, associate professor at the University of Tehran, tells Sputnik.

💬 “There is this culture of resistance in Iran, and this culture of resistance will help Iran, an ancient civilization, to be able to do what Iran has done historically - resist invaders, resist aggressors,” he says.

➖ Meanwhile, the United States is trying to do the same thing it did the last year – kill as many Iranians as possible.

💬 “This time they are more explicit in terms of wanting to change the Iranian government, which is a foolish thing to do, because last time the attack on Iran resulted in a rally around the flag effect,” Izadi notes. “This time is going to result in the same thing.”

➖ He also points out that the US and Israel once again attacked Iran while in the middle of negotiations with the country.

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🚨🇮🇷Iran asserts right to defense against US aggression & calls for regional unity

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has held a phone conversation with his Arab counterparts from countries targeted by Iran's missile strikes on US bases. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran shared the following statements on social media:

🔹Araghchi condemned the US and Israel's military attack as a gross violation of the UN Charter and a threat to global peace and security, emphasizing Iran's right to self-defense

🔹He stressed that all regional countries must prevent the US and Israel from using their resources and territories for attacks against Iran, with Iran viewing any base linked to such operations as a legitimate target

🔹Araghchi warned that the conflict is not just against Iran but poses a threat to all countries in the region, calling for a unified response from Muslim nations to counter Israel's actions

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🚨🇷🇺Russian FM Lavrov condemns unprovoked US and Israeli aggression against Iran

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry's statement:

🟠Sergey Lavrov held a conversation with Iran's foreign minister, who informed him of steps to repel the US and Israeli attack

🟠Lavrov stated that Russia is ready to assist in the resolution around Iran, including at the UN Security Council

🟠Iran's foreign minister told Lavrov about plans to urgently convene the UN Security Council

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