Iran’s foreign minister again referenced on Sunday his country’s planned retaliation against Israel over the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31, saying it would be “measured.”
Abbas Araghchi said late Sunday that he made the remark in a telephone conversation with Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.
“Iran[‘s] reaction to Israeli terrorist attack in Tehran is definitive, and will be measured & well calculated,” Araghchi wrote on the social platform X. “We do not fear escalation, yet do not seek it — unlike Israel.”
A statement released by Iran’s foreign ministry on Monday added that Araghchi told his Italian counterpart that Tehran saw the killing of Haniyeh as “an unforgivable violation of Iran’s security and sovereignty.”
