Press TV – Aug 2, 2021
Mercer Street off Cape Town, South Africa, in 2016. Click to enlarge
An informed Iranian source says the country will give a strong and crushing response to any measure taken against its national interests and security, blaming Britain and the US for the consequences of such moves against Tehran.
“Although the Islamic Republic of Iran considers threats posed by the officials of Western countries and the Zionist regime to be mostly of propaganda value, any measure against Iran’s interests and national security will be met with strong and crushing response, with Washington and London being directly responsible for consequences of such moves,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity with an Iranian news outlet close to the Supreme National Security Council, said on Monday.
The Iranian source’s remarks came after the United States and the United Kingdom joined Israel in accusing Iran of orchestrating Thursday’s attack on an Israeli tanker off the coast of Oman, despite Tehran’s firm denial.
First photos of the Mercer Street following the Iranian drone attack https://t.co/DAaNF3m4RV
— Anna Ahronheim (@AAhronheim) August 2, 2021
“Upon review of the available information, we are confident that Iran conducted this attack, which killed two innocent people, using one-way explosive UAVs,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Sunday.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also reflected on the matter, saying that the “unlawful and callous” attack had highly likely been carried out by Iran using one or more drones.
Later on, Israeli newspaper Kan reported on Sunday that Tel Aviv has received a “green light” from Washington and London to carry out a “response” to the attack.
According to Iran’s Nournews news agency, the accusations against Iran come despite the fact that no evidence or a single proof has so far been provided to prove Iran’s role in this incident.
“Although the statements made by Blinken and Raab are in line with their Iranophobia project to impose their excessive demands in negotiations on [the revival of Iran’s] nuclear deal, they are also indicative of West’s extreme weakness in the area of intelligence and are aimed at creating a new crisis to help them meet their political goals,” it added.
The media report noted that Western countries’ false expression of concern about undermining of maritime security comes despite the fact that both the United States and the UK have many cases of piracy on their records.
“They have also turned a blind eye to the Zionist regime’s acts of terror against other countries and its frequent acts of mischief aimed at making shipping lines unsafe,” the report noted.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh on Sunday said recent accusations leveled against Tehran by Israel and the United States about attacking an Israeli-owned merchant ship in the Sea of Oman are “childish” and influenced by the Zionist lobby in the United States.
“The illegitimate Zionist entity must stop leveling baseless charges against Iran. This is not the first time that this regime brings up such accusations [against Tehran],” he added.
not in our name
we the people of the UK recognise that israel is the centre of world terorism and thuggery
we the people support the right of Iran to fight against jew terror
god bless iran
british patriot
The Western countries “have given Israel the green light” to take action.
Nah….don’t think so….More like the Elders of Zyklon have given orders to their tribe members in Western Countries governments (usually crypto jews like Trump,Macron Johnson Trudeau Merkel).
Israel,as usual is trying to get Western democracies embroiled in their Semitic scheming….and since they control the media they’ll probably get away with it.
@ DAVID LAMBERT
RIGHT THEY HAVE MY BLESSINGS
EVEN IM NO FRIEND OF ISLAM FANATISM.
They tried to get me to go to Ji-had
But I said, ‘WHOA, WHOA, WHOA!’
Yes you been bad you duplicitous hacks
And we all KNOW, KNOW, KNOW!
Illuminate your crimes
In the Sunday or New York Times
They tried to get me to go to Ji-had
But I said NO, NO, NO!!!
(forgive me for that)
It’s too bad that the Lebanese can’t get to the bottom of that explosion at Beirut port last year.
Was it a message to Iran declaring be very scared of us…be very scared.
I wonder if nuclear dust was sprinkled over the area before detonation?
Or if not nuclear, something like wicked, evil, Satanic dust.
Speaking of nuclear dust, 911 and that tower that came down in Florida.
Story has disappeared just like the twin towers.
So what is Israel going to do.
I don’t they’ll get away with doing what the US is doing to the Afghans right now, and by their own admission will continue to do, that’s bomb it, for years to come.
Johnson grovelling to the Jews as usual.
@ GOYBOY
ISRAHELL is the only nation who has
masses of mininukes in WORKING
CONDITION !
they sold some old stuff to other
nations – not working !
IRGC had warned that 80% of Israel’s economy depends on shipping; multiple times they have attacked or bothered tankers going to Syria. This is a kind of new tanker wars that has been going on for some time now. The only news is that Iran can have its allies attack targets with drones and does not have to involve directly.
What we see recently specially with King Abdulah of Jordan playing a reasonable good guy who is enduring Iranian evil in the region… is that enemies of Iran want to create a coalition against Iran and make this an international situation. So they say two people are dead, why not reveal their names and show their photos and have their families cry on TV!?
Similarly Iran does not involve itself directly and the resistance axis can attack targets in retaliation anywhere in the region. The retaliation can be asymmetric but it is in coordination from Iran. In this case Israel is extremely vulnerable, it is about time they tasted an economic embargo of a sort.