The Iranian Foreign Ministry firmly rejected the allegations in the G7 and its partners' joint statement, characterizing them as "baseless" and "irresponsible", describing the accusations as scapegoating.

The Ministry stressed that leveling false accusations against those responsible for safeguarding Iran’s national security constitutes a blatant distortion of reality and represents a deceitful attempt to deflect responsibility by those who themselves pursue illegal and destabilizing actions across the world, particularly in West Asia.

It emphasized that the United States and other G7 members must be held accountable for their destructive role in undermining regional and global security, especially for their complicity in the "gross violations of international law, humanitarian law, and human rights" committed by the Israeli entity in occupied Palestine, as well as for their support of notorious terrorist groups.

“At a time when the Zionist regime, with full support from the US, the UK, Germany, France, and other sponsors of this anti-Iran statement, is committing massacres and genocide in occupied Palestine and fueling ongoing wars in the region, issuing anti-Iran statements only aims to distract global attention from the crime of the century and the complicity of these powers in it,” the Ministry statement said.

The Foreign Ministry concluded its statement by emphasizing that instead of persisting in scapegoating rooted in outdated colonial and supremacist mindsets, the sponsors of such irresponsible statements should correct their wrong and criminal policies toward Iran and the region.

G7 statement

On Friday, the G7 nations condemned Iran, alleging it engages in transnational repression and attacks on its political opponents in other countries.

In a statement issued by the G7 Rapid Response Mechanism, which is tasked with countering foreign interference, the member countries, including Canada, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, condemned what they described as "transnational repression and other malign activities by Iran," allegedly reported by several nations.

"According to those statements, Iranian intelligence services have increasingly attempted to kill, kidnap and harass political opponents abroad, following a disturbing and unacceptable pattern of transnational repression, and clearly undermining state sovereignty," the statement claimed, with no relevant proof provided.