TEHRAN -- Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday Iran is strong enough to thwart any plot by “malicious external actors.”
“Iran is strong and confident enough in its capabilities to thwart any attempt by malicious external actors to sabotage its foreign policy or dictate its course,” Araghchi wrote on X.
He was reacting to remarks by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who on Sunday repeated threats to dismantle Iran’s entire nuclear infrastructure amid the ongoing nuclear talks between Iran and the United States.
Araghchi warned that any strike on Iran’s nuclear sites “will be immediately reciprocated.”
Dismissing Israel’s “fantasy” that it can dictate what Iran may or may not do, Araghchi said the occupying regime is 

“so detached from reality that it hardly merits a response.”
“What is striking, however, is how brazenly Netanyahu is now dictating what President Trump can and cannot do in his diplomacy with Iran,” the top Iranian diplomat added.
Araghchi and Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff have so far led three rounds of indirect talks between Tehran and Washington in the Omani capital of Muscat and the Italian capital, Rome, since April 12.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei on Monday said anny adventurism against Iran will face a crushing response. 
“Western countries, especially those continuing to support this regime [Israel], must understand they are assisting an entity whose survival depends on crisis,” he told a weekly news briefing.