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Iran’s FM says Iranians gave their ‘blood’ but not their ‘honor’ during war with Israel
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a meeting with Russia's President at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on June 23, 2025. (Sergei Karpukhin / AFP)
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says that his compatriots had given their “blood” during a 12-day war with Israel but “not honor,” as Iran held a state funeral.
“Iranians gave blood, not land; gave their loved ones, not honor; they withstood a thousand-ton rain of bombs, but did not surrender,” Abbas Araghchi says on his Instagram account, adding that Iran does not recognise the word “surrender.”
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