Iran Refutes G7 Statement

In a statement released on Sunday, the Foreign Ministry denounced the G7 accusations as unfounded and a sheer attempt at deflection, stressing that levelling false charges against those responsible for safeguarding Iran’s national security amounts to a blatant distortion of facts.

It described the G7’s approach as a hypocritical effort by the very actors whose illegal and destabilizing conduct across different regions, particularly in West Asia, has promoted lawlessness and exacerbated insecurity.

The statement underlined that the United States and other G7 members must be held accountable for their destructive role in jeopardizing regional and global stability, especially for their complicity in the Israeli regime’s gross violations of international law, including international humanitarian law and human rights in Palestine, as well as their backing of notorious terrorist groups.

At a time when the Zionist regime, enjoying full support from the US, the UK, Germany, France and other sponsors of the anti-Iranian statement, is carrying out massacres and genocide in the occupied Palestinian territories and waging constant wars against regional states, the issuance of such anti-Iran statements serves no purpose other than to distract public opinion from “the crime of the century” and to cover up the sponsors’ complicity in genocide, the statement said.

The Foreign Ministry emphasized that the sponsors of such “irresponsible statements” must abandon their outdated colonial and supremacist mindset and rectify their misguided and criminal policies toward Iran and the region instead of persisting in blame-shifting.

The Foreign Ministry reacted to a statement issued on September 12 by the members of the G7 RRM (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, the US, and the European Union) as well as G7 RRM associate members (Australia and New Zealand), which accused Iran of conducting “transnational repression and other malign activities”.