He continued: “We hate war and want peace, but we will respond firmly and with deterrent force to any aggression,” as reported by Iran’s Mehr agency, which noted that Bezikian’s statements came during a special ceremony for the victims of the recent war with Israel, yesterday, Thursday. Earlier, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi sent an official message to Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign policy chief and coordinator of the Joint Commission of the nuclear agreement, in which he accused the European “troika” (Germany, France, the UK) and the EU of “selective positions and shirking commitments.” It is noteworthy that Iran continued for 12 days against Israel last June, which included exchanges of aerial and missile bombardments, and the United States intervened, providing support to Israel and bombing Iranian nuclear facilities.
