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Iran has dismissed calls by France, Germany and the United Kingdom to stand down its threat against Israel after the assassination of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last month, Al Jazeera reports.
Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a statement on Tuesday that the request “lacks political logic and contradict principles of international law” and also “constitutes public and practical support” for Israel.
The European countries “raised no objection to the international crimes” of Israel and “impudently asked Iran not to respond to a violation of its sovereignty and territorial integrity”, he said.
Kanaani said Iran was determined to deter Israel and called on the three countries to “once and for all stand up against the war in Gaza and the warmongering of Israel”.
He also said, “The inaction of the United Nations Security Council and the extensive political and military support of Western governments to the Zionist regime [Israel] are the main factors behind the regional expansion of the Gaza crisis.”
Earlier on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued a joint statement calling for de-escalation.
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