Replying to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who commended allies in the Gulf, particularly the UAE and Kuwait, for being "cooperative", Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi affirmed, "Our Armed Forces are conducting self-defense strikes on sites the US is permitted to use to attack civilian shipping and violate the ceasefire."
Araghchi asserted that "any hostile act will be met with an immediate, decisive response."
"What sanctions and war failed to achieve won't be won with more war," he declared.