Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi says the Israeli regime was forced to end its 12-day war of aggression against Iran “out of desperation” and without any preconditions.
The top diplomat made the remarks during a televised interview on Thursday, addressing a broad range of issues including Israeli-American aggression, European complicity, the future course of negotiations, Iran’s decision to suspend cooperation with the UN nuclear agency, and his diplomatic tour of Geneva and Istanbul amid ongoing Israeli bombings.
He said it was the Zionist regime that requested a halt to Iranian retaliatory operations, which had inflicted heavy damage across the occupied territories.
According to Araghchi, the regime expressed its readiness to cease its aggression, signaling it would hold its fire if the Islamic Republic also stopped its counterstrikes.
The foreign minister emphasized that Iranian decision-makers agreed to end retaliatory operations only if the enemy ceased its aggression unconditionally, a condition the Zionist entity ultimately accepted because it found itself on the back foot.
He hastened to add that Iran will decisively respond to any breach by the Zionist regime.
