Iran's Foreign Minister Alaghche's latest comments on Trump's goals:
"They failed, they thought they could complete a regime change in just a few days and achieve a quick and clean victory.
Plan A has failed, and now they are trying other plans.
They have no realistic endgame.
They are now blindly attacking us.
I would like to say to the Gulf countries:
"If they have the right to take all necessary measures to protect their facilities, I think we are even."
In fact, we have more right to take all necessary measures to defend ourselves and protect our people. And that is exactly what we are doing.
Remember: This is not a war we started, this is not a war we chose!
This war was imposed upon us!
We are under attack, and we are defending ourselves!
They cannot blame us for what happened to them!
They should hold accountable those who started this war, and those people should be responsible for any losses in Iran and the region, because everything started with the United States and Israel.
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