TEHRAN -- Iran has hit out at the
United States for trying to incite tensions across the Middle East through “Iranophobia” after Joe Biden ended his first tour of the region as the U.S. president.
“The U.S. is once more trying to create tensions and crises across the region through relying on the failed policy of Iranophobia,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a statement.
The statement said the U.S. was “the first country to deploy a nuclear bomb, that it constantly interferes with other countries’ affairs, has launched armed conflicts, and has sold massive amounts of arms across the region”.
Referring to Washington’s continued support for the occupying regime of Israel, Kanani said the U.S. is “the main accessory to continued occupation in Palestinian lands, daily crimes of the regime against Palestinians, and apartheid”.
The comments from the Iranian government came after Biden visited Occupied Palestine and Saudi Arabia.
At a summit in Jeddah that brought together six members of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), as well as Egypt, Jordan and Iraq, Biden promised the Arab leaders that Washington is not withdrawing from the region.
“We will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia, or Iran,” he said.
Earlier this week, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi promised a “harsh and regrettable response” if the U.S. and its allies were to make a “mistake” concerning Iran.
In its statement, the Iranian foreign ministry renewed Tehran’s promise to not seek nuclear arms and rejected the “false accusations” made by the U.S. as it “turns a blind eye” to the Zionist regime’s nuclear program for decades.
On Friday, Iran unveiled ships and submarines capable of carrying armed drones.