Iran reserves right to protect its people, pursue perpetrators
The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed the country's right to defend itself and maintain stability.
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The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran.
Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the terrorist attacks on the Iranian cities of Izeh, Isfahan and Mashhad.
"The deliberate silence of foreign promoters of violence in Iran carries no message other than promoting terrorism in the world," the ministry wrote in a statement.
The MfA pointed out that "the terrorist crimes witnessed in the cities of Izeh, Isfahan and Mashhad confirm the criminal nature of the enemies of the Islamic regime."
Tehran's Foreign Ministry called on the international community to "assume its responsibilities and condemn these terrorist operations so as not to create a safe space for the reinforcement of terrorists."
"Iran reserves the right to pursue these terrorist operations legally and judicially and to hold the perpetrators and governments that support them accountable," the statement said, noting that Iran "will do everything in its power to protect the rights of the Iranian people."
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian accused "Israel" and Western intelligence agencies of conspiring to divide Iran and igniting a civil war, stressing that "Iranians will not be deceived by such plans."
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Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence chief, Colonel Nader Bayrami, was assassinated on Friday in the city of Sahneh in Kermanshah province at the hands of rioters.
"During a ceremony in the city of Sahneh, a number of rioters and thugs created chaos and attacked the security forces with white arms," Governor of Sahneh Jahanbakhsh Zanganeh Tabar in an interview with IRNA.
"Colonel Bayrami was martyred during this attack," Sahneh's governor said, stressing that the perpetrators had been arrested and handed over to judicial authorities.
This comes after two members of the Basij and two other members of the Border Guard forces were killed in two assaults in Iran on Thursday.
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