Iran deputy FM says no messages exchanged with US since war

The deputy foreign minister says Iran neither sent a message to the United States, nor received one from the aggressor regime as the country is focused on legitimate self-defense.

“No, we haven’t heard anything and we have not conveyed any message to Americans because we are now defending ourselves. We are in a defensive mode,” Majid Takht-Ravanchi said in an interview with MS Now on Thursday in response to a question about any exchanges of messages between Iran and the US since the bombing began.

He noted that Iran is trying hard to defend its people in the imposed war, adding that the country reserves the right to self-defense.

“What we are concentrating on is to protect ourselves, to defend ourselves. So no message is being sent and we haven’t received any message by America or anybody else,” he further explained.

The US and Israel launched an illegal act of aggression against Iran on Saturday morning by assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. So far, at least 1,045 Iranian people have been people killed in the terrorist airstrikes.

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Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the unlawful military assault by launching barrages of missile and drone attacks on the Israeli-occupied territories as well as on the US assets in regional countries.

Additionally in his remarks, Takht-Ravanchi said that Washington and Tel Aviv wrongly thought that they could end the war during a matter of days but they were “badly mistaken.”

He further emphasized that Iran is legitimately protecting itself in the face of the inhumane aggression that even targets schoolchildren, aid workers and hospitals.

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