The Iranian Foreign Minister joined NBC News today following the US-Israeli military strikes in Iran.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says a regime change in Iran is “mission impossible.”
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also vowed that Iran will continue to exercise its inherent and lawful right of self-defense until the ongoing aggression by the United States and Israel is ceased “fully and unequivocally.”
Via IRNA:
Araghchi made the remarks in a letter to the UN secretary-general and the president of the UN Security Council on Saturday. Earlier in the day, the US and Israel launched airstrikes on different Iranian cities, including the capital, Tehran.
The following is the full text of Araghchi’s letter:
In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful
Excellency,
I write with profound regret to urgently draw your attention, and that of the members of the United Nations Security Council, to the manifest act of aggression and coordinated large-scale armed attacks perpetrated by the United States of America and the Israeli regime against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Today, 28 February 2026, the United States and the Israeli regime flagrantly violated the national sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran by launching attacks against a number of defensive facilities and civilian sites in various cities across our country. The air strikes carried out by the United States and the Israeli regime constitute a clear violation of Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations and amount to an open armed aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In responding to this act of aggression, the Islamic Republic of Iran is exercising its inherent and lawful right of self-defense under Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations. The Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will utilize all necessary defensive capabilities and means to confront this criminal aggression and deter the hostile acts. Accordingly, all bases, facilities, and assets of the hostile forces in the region shall be regarded as legitimate military objectives within the framework of Iran’s lawful exercise of self-defense. Iran will continue to exercise its right of self-defense decisively and without hesitation until the aggression ceases fully and unequivocally.
The United States and the Israeli regime shall bear full and direct responsibility for all ensuing consequences, including any escalation arising from their unlawful actions. In light of the grave and far-reaching consequences of this armed aggression for regional as well as international peace and security, the Islamic Republic of Iran recalls the core responsibility of the United Nations and in particular, the Security Council, to take immediate action in response to this breach of international peace and security resulting by the flagrant military aggression of the United States and the Israeli regime against Iran.
Iran calls upon the Secretary-General, the President of the Security Council, and the Security Council’s members to discharge their duties without delay. In this context, the Islamic Republic of Iran urgently calls upon the members of the Security Council to convene, without delay, an emergency meeting of the Council to address the US and Israeli regime’s acts of aggression, breach of peace which is a real and serious threat to international peace and security, and to take the necessary and immediate measures to halt this unlawful use of force and to ensure accountability.
The Islamic Republic of Iran calls on all Member States of the United Nations that bear responsibility for international peace and security to unequivocally condemn this act of aggression and to undertake urgent and collective measures to confront it, as it undoubtedly poses an unprecedented threat to regional as well as global peace and security.
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