Iran’s chargé d’affaires in London said his country would respond more severely if Israel attacked it again in ‘another mistake’
A model of Iran's first-ever hypersonic missile, Fattah, is carried during a march in Tehran to celebrate the missile attack against Israel, 15 April 2024.A model of Iran's first-ever hypersonic missile, Fattah, is carried during a march in Tehran to celebrate the missile attack against Israel, 15 April 2024.
Matin, who has been Iran’s senior diplomat in the UK since February 2022 when the ambassador was recalled, denied that Iran had made a strategic mistake by attacking Israel’s military bases, so shifting attention fromMatin argued that the west was losing credibility in the Middle East in a way that would ultimately lead to the US leaving the region, and a peace being reached by regional powers alone.
He also denied Cameron’s claims that there could have been thousands of civilian casualties if the mass attack of Iranian drones and missiles, which decisively moved its years-long shadow war with Israel into the open, had penetrated the defence of Israel and its allies. He said he found such an accusation extraordinary coming from a government that had armed a regime that had killed 34,000 Palestinians.
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