Majid Tafreshi, Iran’s ambassador to Portugal for a year and a half, opened the doors of his official residence and served a long breakfast for some journalists, cooked by his wife, Parvaneh, who only shyly introduced herself at the end.
For more than two hours, the conversation wandered through the history of Iran and Ancient Persia and the territories that were once part of that empire. It was the reason for the ambassador to start talking about the illegality of the occupation of Palestinian lands, a topic that occupied a large part of the breakfast.
It is impossible to escape the topic of war in the Middle East, especially when we find ourselves in the “home” of the ambassador of a country that is a regional power in a boiling area and finances several small armies that maintain their own wars in the name of interests they have. in common with Iran, although far from the borders of the Islamic Republic.
Even so, Majid Tafreshi reinforced that his country believes in peace, and does not want the war to go any further than it already has. “Any attack on Iran must have an appropriate response, but I hope that a catastrophe never happens, because consequences will be increasingly painful. It is therefore important that the international community tries to stop the aggressor, the same entity that occupies Gaza, occupied Sinai, occupies the Golan Heights, and has already rejected hundreds of United Nations resolutions. Let’s talk about Iran, but let’s also talk about who is on the other side.” Whoever is on the other side is the “entity” Israel, not the State of Israel. Iran does not recognize Israel because it says that the State of Palestine also needs to be recognized.
Source: expresso.pt
