Macron’s so-called concerns over Iran’s missiles have ‘no logical basis’: Tehran

Iran has decried the alleged concerns of French President Emmanuel Macron over the Islamic Republic’s missile and peaceful nuclear program as unfounded.

“The French President’s concern over Iran’s missile capability or its peaceful nuclear activities has no logical basis,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaee told reporters on Friday, answering a question about recent remarks made by Macron.

Baqaee stressed that Iran’s missile program is part of the defense policy of the country and in line with its inherent right to legitimate defense against any aggression.

He underscored the necessity of the missile capability of Iran to protect the national security of the country and maintain the regional peace and stability.

The spokesman also slammed as unacceptable the unfounded concerns expressed over Iran’s peaceful nuclear program by France, which he said, a country that retains a huge amount of weapons of mass destruction.

Baqaee noted that Iran has proved its goodwill over the past two decades to address the alleged concerns over its peaceful nuclear programs, while the European parties of the deal, including France, didn’t live up to their commitments under the deal.

In 2015, Iran proved the peaceful nature of its nuclear program to the world by signing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with six world powers.

However, the US’s unilateral withdrawal in 2018 and its subsequent re-imposition of sanctions against Tehran left the future of the deal in limbo.

In 2019, Iran started to roll back the limits it had accepted under the JCPOA after the other parties failed to live up to their commitments.

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“The projections of the French president cannot change the fact that the root cause of insecurity and instability in West Asia is the continuation of the occupation”, which is backed by the US and certain Western countries, Esmail Baqaee said.

Referring to France’s failure to take a serious action on Israeli’s genocidal war on Gaza which began in October last year, Baqaee urged France to take steps towards strengthening peace and stability in the world, including adopting an independent and constructive approach, and to refrain from adopting biased positions that supports the occupation and genocide in violation of international law.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed more than 44,600 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured at least 105,000 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

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