Tensions between the US and Iran reached a climax on 20 June after the downing of a US unmanned aerial vehicle that Iran claimed was conducting its operations in violation of the Islamic Republic's airspace. Iran has since filed a formal complaint to the UN, “over the aggression against our airspace,” the document reads.
Iran has rejected US authorities' advice vi-a-vis the path the country should take when dealing with Washington, adding that the Islamic Republic will stick to its long-standing policy of resisting the American pressure.
“We have seen nothing to respond to other than illegal sanctions, economic war and terrorism from the US government,” Seyyed Abbas Mousavi, the spokesman of Iran's Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
“Iran reciprocates diplomacy with diplomacy and pressure with resistance.” he added.
The comments came in response to an interview given by US National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis, in which he lashed out at Iran for what he referred to as a failure to reciprocate the US President's “pursuit of diplomacy” regarding Tehran's nuclear agenda.
According to the deputy chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, the standoff between Iran and the United States is a conflict between good and evil which has already spanned forty years, ISNA reported, citing him as saying that no one in the world would dare to take action…
