{"id":2645,"date":"2026-03-07T16:42:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retrotradingreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/iran-warns-european-countries-will-be-legitimate-targets-if-they-join-conflict\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:42:32","slug":"iran-warns-european-countries-will-be-legitimate-targets-if-they-join-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retrotradingreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/iran-warns-european-countries-will-be-legitimate-targets-if-they-join-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran warns European countries will be \u2018legitimate targets\u2019 if they join conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">An Iranian official warned that any <u>European countries<\/u> that enter the conflict against Iran will become &#8216;legitimate targets&#8217; for Tehran\u2019s retaliation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><u>Iran&#8217;s Deputy Foreign Minister<\/u> Majid Takht-Ravanchi made the remark to France24 as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday apologized to neighboring countries that have been attacked by the regime.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have already informed the Europeans and everybody else that they should be careful not to be involved in this war of aggression against Iran,&#8217; Takht-Ravanchi told the network. &#8216;If they help,&nbsp;I&#8217;m&nbsp;not trying to name any country, but if any country joins in the aggression against Iran, joins America and Israel in the aggression against Iran,&nbsp;definitely they&nbsp;will be also the legitimate targets for Iranian retaliation.&#8217;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This war has imposed on&nbsp;us, and we will continue to <u>defend ourselves<\/u> to the best of our abilities,&#8217; he added. &#8216;We have an obligation to defend our people and that is what exactly we are doing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Takht-Ravanchi also claimed Iran was &#8216;<u>negotiating in good faith<\/u>&#8216; in talks with the U.S. about its nuclear program, before America launched Operation Epic Fury and Israel began Operation Roaring Lion on Feb. 28.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We are sincere. We are sincere in our endeavor to arrive at a peaceful conclusion of this issue,&#8217; he told France24.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pezeshkian said Saturday that any future attacks coming out of Iran would only be in response to attacks against the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I should apologize to the neighboring countries that were attacked by Iran, on my own behalf,&#8217; he said, according to The Associated Press. &#8216;From now on, they should not attack neighboring countries or fire missiles at them, unless we are attacked by those countries. I think we should solve this through diplomacy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Pezeshkian made the apology during a prerecorded televised speech on Saturday after Iran launched <u>repeated strikes on Bahrain<\/u>, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,&nbsp;Qatar&nbsp;and Oman.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the vow, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Defense said on Saturday that the country&#8217;s air defense systems intercepted 16 ballistic missiles, 15 of which were destroyed while one fell into the sea.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News Digital\u2019s Elizabeth Pritchett and The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section data-fetch-key=\"RelatedArticle:0\" class=\"related-article\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<h3 class=\"component-title\">Related Article<\/h3>\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<div class=\"m\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"title\">Gulf states intercept hundreds of Iranian missiles and drones, issue joint condemnation with US<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian official warned that any European countries that enter the conflict against Iran will become &#8216;legitimate targets&#8217; for Tehran\u2019s retaliation.&nbsp; Iran&#8217;s Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi made the remark to France24 as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday apologized to neighboring countries that have been attacked by the regime.&nbsp; &#8216;We have already informed the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retrotradingreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retrotradingreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retrotradingreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retrotradingreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retrotradingreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/retrotradingreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retrotradingreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retrotradingreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retrotradingreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retrotradingreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}