In an interview with NBC News, Hossein Amirabdollahian refused to acknowledge that Israel was behind the recent attack on his country.

In an interview with NBC News, Hossein Amirabdollahian refused to acknowledge that Israel was behind the recent attack on his country.

Iran’s foreign minister on Friday refused to acknowledge that Israel was behind the recent attack on his country and described the weapons that were used as more like children’s toys.

“What happened last night was not a strike,” the foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, said in an interview with NBC News’ Tom Llamas. “They were more like toys that our children play with – not drones.”

Amirabdollahian, who spoke to NBC News in New York where he was attending a U.N. Security Council session, said Iran was not planning to respond unless Israel launches a significant attack.

“As long as there is no new adventurism by Israel against our interests, then we are not going to have any new reactions,” he said.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
    66·
    7 months ago

    I wouldn’t say they are more rational and mature. They are just less evil. But what Israel does is also in its interest (in only one particular understanding of it, of course).

    • Emmie@lemm.eeEnglish
      68·
      7 months ago

      Less evil? Maybe the external politics. I much prefer Israel as a country though. Just not the leaders and their genocidal tendencies vs Gaza.

      Iran is a f mess run by religious freak males and they only haven’t done any genocide because they are too busy policing crazy stuff on their own people.

      As far as I am concerned they need a delivery of some good old democracy

      • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
        101·
        7 months ago

        I was listening to someone give a potted history of Iran since the 1950s and it’s a cascade of western foreign policy mistakes. Starting with the backing of the 1953 coup, installing Saddam Hussain in Iraq, backing Iran against Hussain when he was a problem, removing a power structure in Iraq through war allowing Iranian powers to get footholds there. Same thing in Syria and the Assad regime. (I may have some bits wrong / out of order - go read up for yourself).

        The end result is this sleeping tiger of a nation that has influence in several countries around it, yet we expect it not to escalate the situation when Israel is kicking off.

      • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        33·
        7 months ago

        I much prefer Iran as a country.

        Iranians have shown they’ll fight their government.

        Israelis vote theirs in.

        Both have shit leaders, one has shit people too.

          • daltotron@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            7 months ago

            It is kind of crazy how americans can’t really get this through their heads very consistently, when it’s also the circumstance in which they find themselves. I dunno, make sense I guess, it’s just a very, very cynical and nihilistic view of america, I suppose. Not necessarily wrong, but damn.