Since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks across Iran last weekend, the Islamic Republic has retaliated by firing missiles and drones across the region, striking Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and other countries.
But Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday in an interview with “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Llamas that Iran had not made a decision to start a war with its neighbors.
“We have not attacked our neighbors. We have not attacked Muslim countries,” Araghchi said. “We have attacked American targets and American bases, American installations, which are unfortunately located in the soils of our neighbors.”
Araghchi said he has spoken with the foreign ministers of these countries to explain that they are not the target.
Llamas noted that some of the Iranian attacks have hit civilian targets, including residential areas in Bahrain, hotels in Dubai and the international airport in Kuwait, but Araghchi dismissed any such attacks
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