Baku, Azerbaijan, June 15. Iran has delivered a
full response to recent Israeli attacks, Iranian Foreign Minister
Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on June 15 during a meeting with foreign
diplomats in Tehran, Trend reports.
According to Araghchi, Iran initially targeted only military
sites during the first night of strikes on Israel. However,
following Israeli attacks on the Tehran oil refinery and several
economic facilities in Iran’s Bushehr province, Tehran expanded its
retaliation to include Israeli economic infrastructure — including
strikes on Israeli oil refineries.
“The attacks on economic areas, including the Asaluyeh region in
Bushehr province, are a mistake. Escalating the conflict into the
Persian Gulf region is extremely dangerous and represents an
attempt to expand the war’s geography beyond Iran. The
international community must take immediate action to halt these
attacks,” Araghchi emphasized.
The statement comes in the aftermath of Israeli airstrikes on
Iranian territory in the early hours of June 13, which killed
several high-ranking Iranian military officials, including Chief of
the General Staff Mohammad Bagheri, IRGC Commander-in-Chief Hossein
Salami, Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters Commander Gholamali Rashid,
IRGC Aerospace Force Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh, along with nine
nuclear scientists and other senior officials.