Iran warns of everlasting consequences after U.S. strikes
發佈日期: 2025-06-22 21:24
TVB News
Iran said the U.S. attacks on its nuclear sites were against international law and will have "everlasting consequences."
Iranian state television informs the country of the dawn attacks on the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites by the "enemies of Islamic Iran."
Calling it a barbaric move violating international regulations, particularly the Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, and with the complicity of the United Nation's nuclear agency, the IAEA.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, speaking from Istanbul, said Iran reserved all options to defend itself, saying the attacks were "outrageous and will have everlasting consequences".
The warmongering and lawless adminsitration in Washington is solely and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and far-reaching implications of its act of aggression.
The U.S. military attack on the territiorial integrity and national sovereignty of a U.N. member state carried out in collusion with the genocidal Israeli regime has once again revealed the extent of the United States hostility towards the peace-seeking people of Iran who will never compromise over their independence and sovereignty.
Iran's Foreign Ministry said the U.S. has itself launched a dangerous war against Iran with the attacks.
It sent a message to the world reminding that it was the U.S. that betrayed diplomacy by supporting Israeli attacks last week just two days before scheduled nuclear talks.
Iran has the right to resist with full force, it said, after U.S. President Donald Trump earlier said he would decide within two weeks whether to attack Iran but launched his aircraft soon afterwards.
A senior Iranian parliament official said the NPT's own laws give Iran the right to withdraw from the treaty.
Unlike Israel, Tehran is a signatory to the NPT and allows inspectors into the country to check on their nuclear facilities.
Iran's military response was swift. Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv soon after the U.S. attacks, with Israel saying its air defences intercepted many of the Iranian missiles.
At least 16 people were reportedly injured in the Israeli port of Haifa. An Israeli rescue service said Iranian missiles struck areas in northern and central parts of the country as well.
In the skies over Amman, the capital of Jordan, several Iranian missiles were seen being intercepted. Iranian rocket launches aimed at Israel must fly over Jordanian skies to reach their target.
In a later statement, Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it had fired one of its biggest ballistic missiles at Israel in response to the U.S. attacks.
The Khorramshahr-4, part of a salvo of 40 missiles Iran fired, can carry multiple warheads and has the heaviest payload of Iran's ballistic missile fleet.
It has been described as having a 2,000-kilometre range and a 1,500-kilogram warhead.
Israel then released video showing what it says are its aircraft bombing targets in Iran, including aircraft, missile launchers and soldiers.
