Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi has said in a letter to the UN that Tehran would hold the US responsible for any Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities.
The letter was a response to recent media reports that said Israel was preparing for a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Sources told CNN that the attack could come if Israel isn’t happy with a negotiated deal between the US and Iran or if Israel wants to sabotage an agreement from ever being reached.
“Iran strongly warns against any adventurism by the Zionist regime of Israel and will decisively respond to any threat or unlawful act by this regime,” Aragchi said in a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi.
“We are likewise of the firm conviction that — in the event of any attack against the nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Zionist regime — the government of the United States shall bear legal responsibility, having been complicit therein,” Aragchi said.
The Iranian diplomat called on the “international community to take effective preventive measures against the continuation of Israeli threats, which if unchecked, will compel Iran to take special measures in defense of our nuclear facilities and materials.”
Iranian officials have previously said Iran could suspend IAEA inspections of its civilian nuclear program or move enriched uranium to undisclosed locations in response to an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Aragchi’s letter comes a day before the US and Iran are set to hold another round of nuclear talks in Rome. The two sides have been at odds over the US’s demands for Iran to eliminate its nuclear enrichment program altogether, which Iranian officials have made clear is a non-starter, but the negotiations have continued.
Despite all the hype about Iran’s nuclear program, US intelligence agencies have recently reaffirmed there’s no evidence Iran is building a nuclear weapon or that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reversed his 2003 ban on the development of weapons of mass destruction.
Iran should just develop the nuke and be done with it.
We have more than enough nukes globally between all the countries to blow us to kingdom come. What’s one more?
I have long suspected they weren’t planning to develop nukes because couple of warheads were bought a long time ago as an insurance policy.
My assumption from the early 1990s on was that if the Iranians wanted nukes, they would have picked up a couple in a post-Soviet fire sale.
But nukes are only an “insurance policy” if you’re known to have them.
Isn’t that the point? The US govt is harassing and threatening Iran because they know Iran doesn’t have nukes.
Not likely. Russia kept a tight lid on their nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Iran used them against Israel, what is left of Israel will nuke Moscow.
What would the mainstream media do if IRAN was the one reporting a planned attack on Israel's nuclear infrastructure? Israel survives and kills because of DOUBLE STANDARDS! Pay back is going to be a BITCH!
They may be forced to it; but it would be a sad day. Even in the depths of the Iran-Iraq war when they were subjected to chem and bio attacks, they refrained from developing or acquiring similar weapons and called them forbidden.
It will be a great day when Iran finally ditches the NPT and declares itself a nuclear weapons state. And that day is coming soon and the barbaric genocidal regime of the US nor their genocidal settler-colony attack dog cannot do a damn thing about it.
I hear your message, highly cynical…. These are the times we live in…..
Who are Iran's allies? Are any of them bastions of human rights– equal women's rights, gay rights, religious rights, sectarian equality, freedom of press, speech, and expression?
Alliances are for weak countries that can’t stand on their own.
You mean like the girly allies of the U.S.?
To lose the morals that you have is to "defeat" the enemy by becoming him … the worst sort of victory and not something to be proud of.
"For what shall it profit a man to gain the world but lose his soul" …
It is because of your far left big mouths that Republicans won the Presidency, all swing States, the House, and the Senate.
Hezbollah and Hamas are considered terrorist organizations, designated as such by a number of Countries, to include the Arab League, and the Gulf Cooperation Council.
You are highly combative, counter productive to what most of us represent and stand for here at antiwar.com !
Vote me down and fine but at the very least say why because you are making yourself out to be a combative a-hole and that is a waste of our time!….
If you have any contradictory evidence to anything I have posted, please educate me and the readers. I am always willing to learn.
I would prefer a constructive discourse here, even with those I may disagree…
When do you plan to have a "constructive discourse"? Posting old worn out songs is not a "constructive discourse".
You seem to have a great deal of knowledge on the far left. What is the criteria to be categorized as far left vs. center left?
More objective thinking! The far left has made up its mind regardless of any facts that might cause an objective person to re-think their position from time to time.
The “far left” holds precisely zero political power in the US and all its members could probably meet in a phone booth, if phone booths still existed.
Why would that be a great day? Are you rooting for a nuclear war in Middle East?
I keep saying that. Not only that they are not messing with Kim that much. They just love to attack the weak and take them over.
Either the whole world – each country – gives up all their nukes or leave others alone that want one in order not to be slaughtered.
I'm sorta waiting for Sally Struthers to narrate a tear-jerker commercial (over Sarah MacLachlan's music) telling Americans "how every day, another fissile core of one of our thousands of poor, neglected nuclear warheads reaches the end of its service-life, sad and alone in a concrete silo under Wyoming or in a dark submarine somewhere east of Japan.
"You have the power to e-mail Donald Trump and ask him, for the price of only every ounce of coffee sold on the planet every day for centuries, to commit America to a $1 trillion dollar program to make more & better weapons that will kill the f**k out of EVERYTHING if even under half are ever used. Thank you, and our Nation's priorities are a joke."
I've been hitting the George Washington University college of arts & sciences Twitter account for banning their valedictorian for making a divestment from genocide speech. Hope I won't be alone.
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Did you see the video of Columbia students/graduates booing the president of their university? Followed by chants of “You arrested us”?
No, is it on "Youtube"? It sure will not be on regular TV or print media.
Due Dissidence, I think, covered it. But they don’t have the clip up yet. I’m sure they probably found it on x or instagram?
Thank you – I watch them a lot. I don't watch their 3 plus hours but wait for individual segments. I will look out for it.
Yeah, most streamers who go on that long, I cut out of.
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Israel is a US proxy. Or is it the other way around?
It fluctuates, it is whatever is needed for the moment, both would cut the others throat if needed
This is really good analysis. I have sometimes side eyed Larry Johnson, but he is very sensible here, and Wilkerson has seemed credible to me for a while.
Wider range of topics than the header:
Larry C. Johnson & Col. Larry Wilkerson: Iran Draws a Red Line | Putin Stuns Trump W/ Bombshell
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-m-F2wIKals
Both are realists and honest.
"Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi has said in a letter to the UN that Tehran would hold the US responsible for any Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities."
Normally I'm inclined to support the IRI position, but I have to take exception with this declaration.
Insomuch as the Apartheid State of Israel mooches and whines and demands from the USA, I don't have the impression the USA has or holds any control over Tel Aviv's whims. I think Netanyahu and his cabal answer only to their own madness.
Thus unless the IRI, if attacked by the ASI, can demonstrate direct American assistance in the attack, then responsibility cannot reasonably be assigned the Americans for what the Israeli State does on its own. I do not accept the US claim that Tehran directs Ansar Allah in Yemen, therefore I am logically bound to refuse a Persian fiat declaration that the USA is automatically responsible for anything the ASI does.
That said, Trump would certainly take public credit for helping the ASI attack Iran even if the US didn't assist in any way. It'd play to his GISS Army supporters he'll need in order to stay Permanent President.
The genocidal child murdering settler-colony is an attack dog and vassal of the US. Everything that "Israel" does it does with US permission and knowledge. "Israel" is not run from Tel Aviv. It is run from Washington. That is the Iranian position and the position held by most anti-Zionists in this world.
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There are dozens of conflicts and border wars in the world involving Muslim leaders and Muslim regimes.
Some walls and fences involving Muslim Countries and I am sure you could name a few more:
Bulgaria/Turkey
Egypt–Gaza barrier
Egypt-Libya border wall
Ethiopia – Sudan barrier
Golan Heights and Syria barrier
Malaysia–Thailand barrier
India–Bangladesh barrier
Indian Kashmir barrier
Iran–Pakistan barrier
Iran -Iraq barrier
Iran -Turkey barier
Jordan- Syria barrier
Kuwait–Iraq barrier
Pakistan–Afghanistan barrier
Somalia/Kenya
Saudi–Yemen barrier
Saudi–Iraq barrier
Tunisia -Libya border fence
Turkey–Syria border barrier
Turkey–Iran border barrier
Turkmen–Uzbekistan barrier
United Arab Emirates–Oman barrier
Uzbek–Afghanistan barrier
Uzbek–Kyrgyzstan barrier
Israel-West Bank barrier
Israel-Egypt barrier
Israel-Lebanon barrier
Israel-Gaza barrier
Melilla border fence between Spain and Morocco
Can you believe in how many of these conflicts the USA is involved in, and add sanctions, which are acts of war, and the USA does not even share borders with any?
The USA was never militarily attacked, with the Israel exception, remember the USS Liberty.
"during the Six-Day War.[2] The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two marines, and one civilian NSA employee), wounded 171 crew members."
What friends they are.
""Israel" is not run from Tel Aviv. It is run from Washington" Tell that to the USS Liberty conspiracy nuts.
A position is not true because a lot of people (Tehran & “anti-Zionists”) believe it. It is true if the position comports with facts in evidence.
At present I see a Tel Aviv (Netanyahu in particular) engaged in a Messianic mindset. The ACTUAL Messiah of Judaism, mind you, not the false co-opted one of Christianity. The Messiah who will come to Israel as a warrior-king, slay the enemies of Israel and restore all of the Chosen People’s lands.
Washington (and the USA in general) does not subscribe to this “warrior Messiah” Old Testament interpretation, only a New Testament fan-fic that requires Judaism as “useful idiots” to bring Christian End Times and White Obi-Wan Kenobi Jesus “back” to rule.
Everything Tel Aviv does reads as them following their own script, with the USA silently disagreeing on dogma and betting on their own.
The letter makes sense because Israel does not have any B2s or B52s bombers… So US participation becomes inevitable…! Not to mention air refueling and intelligence…!
This plan would be better than developing nukes… and Iran has plenty of underground facilities to move its enrichment to…!
A little "right back at you" for the US threatening Iran for anything the Houthis do. But Iran doesn't even have the means to come close to being able to supply the Houthis the way the US supplies Israel's genocide, or how they would have to supply Israel for an attack on Iran, even if they wanted to.
I am with Iran on this fine point…..
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It is bullshit as Hamas could have stopped this war at any point in the last 19 months and saved the good people of Gaza 19 months of hardship. — Lay down your arms and release the hostages and it's done deal.
ISRAEL could have STOPPED this war anytime if it had wanted to, in fact on the very first day and they would not have killed so many of their own people, BUT the Israeli's needed a bloodbath to start the genocide of the Palestinians.
Iranian American support for Israel is often rooted in a rejection of the Iranian government's actions, including its support for Hamas and other "Axis of Resistance" groups, according to the Atlantic Council and its perceived failure to prioritize national interests, according to the Stimson Center.
The US is responsible for any Israeli attack on Iran, regardless of target preferences.
I hesitate to say so. The US is indeed responsible for the actions of the US Military, but the ASI has morphed into such a rabid animal that I don't think Washington has any control.
Trump will assent & consent after the fact if the ASI does attack, but I don't think it'll come with his and/or America's permission first.
The jets, missiles, bombs, intelligence and finance comes from the USA. If the US government continues to feed and enable a "rabid animal" regime such as Israel, how is the US government not "complicit"? Same goes for Gaza.
They're involved in it to the neck…!
The dogs in DC are as mad as the mad dogs in Tel Aviv.
The Americans chose ASI, the rabid dog. They overestimated their own power and underestimated the power of the mad animal.
Yeah. Get rid of your nuclear program. Next: get rid of your missile program. Then downsize your military to a internal security only size. Then your leaders will get to compare how stupid all that was with Gaddafi in the after life.
0 nukes 4 no 1
This could be indicative of retaliation against any Israeli aggression might include US as well,,,!
Iran would be very foolish to attack the US. They did it successfully once under trump, but they are playing with fire if they think they can get away with it a second time.
In general, Americans don't want Iranians to develop a strategic nuclear stockpile because they don't want Iranians to ever have true security nor sovereignty nor any kind of regional hegemony. The US is terrified of a powerful Iran because of its history as the Persian Empire from the Achaemenids down to the Safavids and Qajars.
Americans want America to have total global hegemony and supremacy. Well, that isn't possible anymore. The US-led Zionist empire is collapsing. Just as they cannot hope to keep Russia and China down, they will never be able to prevent Iran from fulfilling its destiny and its place in history.
The Western world order and its Zionist vassal were built on slavery and genocide. They have no right to dictate to the rest of the world who gets to have what. Western arrogance knows no limits.
Oh, the sixties—- The Vietnam War was a major proxy war between the United States and the Soviet Union, with the United States supporting South Vietnam against the communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. The conflict escalated significantly in the mid-1960s, with US military advisors and combat troops deployed to South Vietnam.
Sino-Indian War: This border conflict, also known as the Nathu La and Cho La Clashes, resulted in a stalemate and the withdrawal of Chinese troops from some disputed areas.
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965: This war, also known as the Second Kashmir War, was a border dispute between India and Pakistan, resulting in a ceasefire and a return to the status quo.
Six-Day War: This war between Israel and neighboring Arab states (Egypt, Jordan, and Syria) resulted in a significant victory for Israel, which gained control of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula that were used as staging grounds to attack Isael.
Sino-Soviet Border Conflict: This series of clashes between China and the Soviet Union resulted in a return to the status quo ante bellum, with neither side gaining any significant territorial advantage.
The 1960s in Africa were marked by several conflicts, including the Congo Crisis, the Nigerian Civil War, the Rhodesian Bush War, and the South African Border War. These wars involved both internal conflicts within newly independent nations and conflicts with remaining colonial powers.
And in Latin America: the Cuban Revolution, which heavily impacted the region and the Cold War. The era also saw the rise of military juntas in several countries, including Brazil, Argentina, and Chile
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The truth is that Hamas committed a genocidal attack on Israelis and rounded up hundreds of hostages of all ages to imitate this mess that you have today. Hamas could have laid down their arms at any point in the last 19 months and ended this hardship.
See definition of paranoia (above).
HAMAS knows better. If the end of Gadhafi and Saddam Hussein and the assassinations of Iranian diplomats and Scientists and Trump did not teach them a lesson what does?
They are common sense people, they learned one thing ,to never trust the Americans.
So Hamas leadership is OK with the deaths of thousands of Palestinians just so they can protect themself from paying the price for their Oct 7 attack. Nice.
You make no sense, you are ok with dropping 2000 pound bunker buster bombs on women and children sleeping in shredded tents, you are ok with starving people to death? The Zionists are ok to slaughter the Palestinian people? If that is ok then it is ok for Hamas to kill Israelis or not? The Israelis are robbing and killing Palestinians for almost a century. It is their homeland for many centuries and you deny them the right to their land and century old olive trees and homes? What would you do if someone did that to you?
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Back in January Trump posted Jeffrey Sachs' remarks that Net is “a deep dark SOB.” Trying to suggesst he's not subordinate to the man, a contest of who's mightier? There's some kind of fracturing in the Trump establishment now with part of it determined to “sabotage” the Iran talks and move on to an attack. But there's also resistance and delay. What's going on? Related:
At about minute 31
“The Americans are overstretched . ..”
IAEA.Org GOV/2025/10 Page 9 E. Summary
44. The Director General is seriously concerned that the outstanding safeguards issues remain unresolved more than two years after the Board of Governors first decided that it was “essential and urgent in order to ensure verification of the non-diversion of nuclear material” for Iran to clarify those outstanding safeguards issues. These issues stem from Iran’s obligations under its NPT Safeguards Agreement and unless and until Iran resolves them the Agency will not be in a position to provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear programme is exclusively peaceful.
45. Iran has neither provided technically credible explanations for the presence of uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at undeclared locations in Iran nor informed the Agency of the current location(s) of the nuclear material and/or of the contaminated equipment involved. Instead, Iran states that it has declared all of the nuclear material, activities and locations required under its Safeguards Agreement. This is inconsistent with the Agency’s assessments of the unexplained nuclear-related activities that took place at all four of the undeclared locations in Iran referred to above, and of the origin of the uranium particles of anthropogenic origin found at three of these locations: these assessments remain unchanged. The Agency is, therefore, at an impasse with regards to resolving these outstanding safeguards issues.
46. Iran’s unilateral decision to stop the implementation of modified Code 3.1, in contravention of its legal obligations set out in Article 39 of the Safeguards Agreement and in the Subsidiary Arrangements, is having a negative impact on the Agency’s ability to provide assurance of the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme.
47. The Director General deeply regrets that Iran, despite having indicated a willingness to consider accepting the designation of four additional experienced Agency inspectors, did not accept their designations.
48. There has been no significant progress in the past 21 months towards implementing the Joint Statement of 4 March 2023. In the context of Iran’s agreement that the Joint Statement continues to provide a framework for cooperation with the Agency and for addressing the outstanding safeguards issues, the Director General calls upon Iran urgently to implement the Joint Statement through serious engagement.
49. The significantly increased production and accumulation of high enriched uranium by Iran, the only non-nuclear weapon State to produce such nuclear material, is of serious concern.
paranoia /păr″ə-noi′ə/
noun
A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution with or without grandeur, often strenuously defended with apparent logic and reason.
Extreme, irrational distrust of others.
A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusions of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency.
In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called “cranks.” Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration, and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing.
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The Americans have destroyed all nuclear weapons agreements, which makes it necessary for non-nuclear powers to build their own nuclear deterrent since the NPT has become meaningless.
Gadhafi and Sadam Hussein both gave up their nuclear weapons and see what happened to them.
Kim of NK is smart, he will make sure the USA will pay a big price if they attack NK.
Would you trust the USA?
I must confess that I grow wearier and wearier of the clown show running the government of Israel.
Someone should shut it down before its wet dream of Armageddon casts its ugly shadow over all of our planet.
Simple question to NuttanYahoo: Who died and put you in charge?
The enemy of my enemy is my friend….
The U.S. logic about Iran and Nuclear Energy is so ridiculous but it's to protect greater Israel. Let's see, who already has Nuclear Weapons, the U.S., China, Russia, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and of course Israel gets to have them but Iran, No Way, and the odd part is that they don't want a weapon, but they do want to have the capacity for Nuclear Enrichment. This ok for me, but not thee, is B.S. and done for the benefit of the monsters in Israel.
UK is also in the club…!
Yes, using US designs.
"the odd part is that they don't want a weapon, but they do want to have the capacity for Nuclear Enrichment. " Yes it is odd that Iran is enriching uranium to 60% which has no civilian use. At 60% they could make a simple gun type weapon with a yield of 10 kt or go on to enrich to 90% in a few months to field weapons which are smaller and have a bigger blast.
It’s not “odd” at all. They’ve said, from the very beginning, both why they are doing it (because the US abrogated the deal under which they didn’t do it) and what it would take for them to stop doing it and undo it (the other regimes obligated under the deal going back to fulfilling their obligations).