Iran Summons German, Austrian Envoys in Reciprocal Move
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the ambassadors of Germany and Austria to Tehran after Iran’s envoys to Berlin and Vienna were summoned following Tehran’s legitimate and retaliatory missile attack against the Israeli military targets.
Germany's ambassador to Tehran Markus Potzel and Austrian envoy Wolfgang Dietrich Heim were separately called in by the Foreign Ministry on Thursday in protest at their respective countries’ “unacceptable measures” in summoning Iranian envoys over Operation True Promise II.
Director General of the Western Europe Department at the Iranian Ministry of Affairs Majid Nili Ahmadabadi stated during the meetings that the Islamic Republic is utterly determined to defend its own security, Press TV reported.
He emphasized that the Iranian Armed Forces’ act is in line with the principle of legitimate defense, stipulated in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, comes after two months of self-restraint and has been carried out to help the establishment of sustainable security in the region.
Nili Ahmadabadi also denounced the supportive positions of some European countries for the Zionist regime.
“We believe that if the European parties had taken effective and practical measures, including severance of financial and military support, they would have stopped the killing machine and genocide of the Israeli regime in time, and we would not have witnessed such tragedies nowadays,” he said.
The German and Austrian ambassadors, for their parts, said they would convey Iran's protest to their respective countries.