WANA (Nov 13) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei has dismissed the statements made about the Islamic Republic of Iran in the final communiqué of the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Canada, calling them “baseless, irresponsible, and unacceptable.”

 

In a media statement, Baghaei criticized the G7 countries for “repeating their irresponsible stance” by endorsing what he described as the “illegal and unjustified” actions of the three European countries and the United States in misusing the JCPOA dispute resolution mechanism to reinstate previously lifted UN Security Council resolutions against Iran.

 

He said the G7’s position amounted to supporting “an international wrongdoing,” stressing that it does nothing to legitimize the unlawful measures taken by those states.

 

The senior Iranian diplomat also condemned the G7’s call for Iran to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), saying such a demand—made without any reference to what he termed the “illegal military aggression” by the U.S. and Israel against Iran and its peaceful nuclear facilities—was “hypocritical and interventionist.”

 

He asserted that the United States, due to its unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA in 2018 and its attacks on Iran’s peaceful nuclear sites, bears primary responsibility for the current situation.

 

He added that the three European countries, by following Washington and failing to fulfill their obligations, as well as by supporting U.S. and Israeli aggression, had “grossly violated” their JCPOA commitments and deliberately ignored Iran’s diplomatic initiatives.

 

Baghaei further denounced the G7’s stance on Palestine as “irresponsible” and in violation of their international obligations to uphold the right of nations to self-determination and to prevent genocide. He said that the G7’s full support for Israel and their tolerance of its “occupation and genocide of Palestinians” had stripped the group’s human rights claims of all credibility.

 

Rejecting what he called the G7’s “repetitive and baseless” accusations against Iran regarding the Ukraine conflict, Baghaei reiterated Iran’s “principled position” of opposing war and advocating dialogue and diplomacy to resolve disputes.

 

He stressed that the Islamic Republic has played no role in the Ukraine conflict, urging the accusers to abandon their “superiority complex” and “blame-shifting,” and instead acknowledge and correct their own “mistaken policies” concerning global peace and security.