Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday said his country was in a “full-scale war” with the United States and that Tehran should accept the repercussions of the conflict.
“The reality is that today the Islamic Republic of Iran is engaged in a full-scale war,” Pezeshkian said, adding that “we must be realistic and accept the natural consequences of this resistance,” he said, according to a presidency statement.
In terms of diplomatic efforts, a Pakistani interior ministry source said Iran’s Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni is set to travel to mediator Pakistan‘s capital on Monday.
The source confirmed said that the minister would have talks with Pakistani officials but did not elaborate on whether it was linked to Pakistan’s long-running mediation efforts to end fighting between the United States and Iran.
Meanwhile, Bahrain’s civil aviation body said that Iran had targeted its air navigation systems with drones on Monday, though traffic remained unaffected.
“As a result of a hostile Iranian act of aggression against the Kingdom of Bahrain, civil air navigation systems serving the Bahrain Flight Information Region were targeted by hostile drones. However, air navigation operations remained unaffected,” it said in a statement, adding that “flights and air traffic” were proceeding normally.
On the nuclear issue, Iran urged the United Nations nuclear watchdog to condemn US strikes that it said targeted the Darkhovin nuclear power plant under construction in the country’s southwest.
“Iran… expects the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Board of Governors and the Director General of the IAEA, who from time to time makes political statements regarding the Iranian nuclear issue, to clearly state their position on this matter in condemning the US crime,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said at a press conference in Tehran. (AFP)
