WANA (Sep 06) – The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Japan has strongly criticized a clause in the joint statement issued by the foreign ministers of Japan and Australia, calling it biased and unacceptable.

 

In a post on social media platform X, the Iranian mission wrote: “It is regrettable that Japan, alongside Australia—a country that cut diplomatic ties with Iran for baseless reasons and now hypocritically calls on Iran to engage in diplomacy—has issued a completely biased and unacceptable statement regarding Iran.”

 

The embassy stressed that it is Israel and the United States, not Iran, who must be blamed and held accountable for the current stalemate, arguing that their illegal attacks on safeguarded Iranian nuclear sites undermined diplomacy.

 

The joint statement by Japan and Australia had urged Iran to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and return to diplomacy—a demand Tehran rejected as one-sided.

 

Previously, on August 26, the Australian Prime Minister claimed that Tehran was involved in two anti-Semitic attacks in Australia and ordered that Iran’s ambassador in Canberra, Ahmad Sadeghi, along with three other Iranian diplomats, leave the country within seven days.

 

Canberra also suspended the operations of its embassy in Tehran and urged Australian citizens living in Iran to depart as soon as possible if conditions permit.

 

In response, the spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the departure of Australia’s ambassador from Iran and confirmed that, in accordance with diplomatic norms and international law, the Islamic Republic of Iran has reciprocally reduced the level of Australia’s diplomatic presence in the country.

Iranian Embassy in Tokyo

Iranian Embassy in Tokyo. Social media/ WANA News Agency