Tehran does not want tensions and is not seeking confrontation with Washington, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Wednesday at a press conference following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
"We don't want tension either, we're not seeking any confrontation," he said, when asked about worsening relations between Iran and the United States.
The Iranian foreign minister said US allegations about attacks by "groups close to Iran" on a US military base and attacks on it with Iranian drones were groundless. Abdollahian said the US "always makes baseless, ungrounded claims and blames others" before presenting documents to back up its accusations.
"The Islamic Republic has always played a positive constructive role in sustainable peace and security in the region," the Iranian minister pointed out, noting that Iran's response to the US side was "resolute and candid."
Earlier, the Pentagon reported that an allegedly Iranian drone was used to attack a US-led international anti-terrorist coalition base in northeastern Syria. The attack killed one US serviceman and injured five others, along with another worker. In response, the US Air Force launched a series of airstrikes on targets in Syria that Washington believes may be linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, Iran's elite military units).
On Saturday night, pro-Iranian Shiite fighters fired at least nine missiles on a US military base near the Conoco gas field in Syria's Deir ez-Zor province, Al-Hadath TV reported.
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Based on materials from TASS