TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, while insisting on the Islamic Republic’s formidable policy of good neighborliness and friendship with all regional countries, has warned against any participation in the acts of aggression against a neighboring country.

Araghchi said it is the duty of all regional countries not to allow the United States and Israel to misuse their lands, airspaces, or facilities for acts of aggressions against the Islamic Republic.

The comments by the Iranian chief diplomat came after Iran struck the military bases of the United States in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, and the King Hussein Air Base in Jordan, after the U.S. and Israel started a deceptive, illegitimate and unprovoked war against Iran on Saturday morning.

“(Therefore,) the Armed Forces of Iran, in applying their inherent right to defend our county in accordance with international law, consider the origin of aggressive acts of the U.S. and the Zionist regime” against Iran as “legitimate targets,” Araghchi said in the telephone conversations with his counterparts in regional countries.

Araghchi also said this strategy applies against any country that seeks to counter Iran’s retaliatory acts against the Israeli and U.S. invaders.