August 22, 2019
OSLO (Reuters) – Iran will not start a war in the Gulf but it will defend itself, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday.
“Will there be a war in the … Gulf? I can tell you that we will not start the war… but we will defend ourselves,” he said at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
(Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis in Oslo; Writing by Tuqa Khalid in Dubai; editing by John Stonestreet)
