{"id":1365062,"date":"2026-03-03T19:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/iran-threatens-europe-with-war-in-response-to-any-defensive-actions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:44:53","slug":"iran-threatens-europe-with-war-in-response-to-any-defensive-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/iran-threatens-europe-with-war-in-response-to-any-defensive-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran threatens Europe with war in response to any defensive actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that any actions by European countries directed against Iran would be regarded as an \u201cact of war.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Euronews <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/03\/03\/tehran-vows-to-strike-european-countries-if-they-join-iran-war\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reports<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tehran has warned Europeans against joining the war amid statements by some countries about the possibility of defensive measures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Foreign Ministry spokesman warned that any defense would be viewed by Iran as a provocation, after which European cities could come under attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDefense is synonymous with offense, it doesn\u2019t make sense, do they really want to deprive Iran of its capabilities and ability to fight aggressors,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to him, European states &#8220;have already done enough against Iran.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> As is known, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-v-zoni-dosiazhnosti-iranskykh-raket\/\">Iran is building up its arsenal of long-range missiles and drones<\/a> , which are theoretically capable of hitting not only Middle Eastern countries, but also parts of Europe, including Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that on February 28, Israel launched preemptive strikes on Iran, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/izrail-zavdav-preventyvnykh-udariv-po-iranu-i-khezbolli-v-livani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as well as attacked Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon<\/a> . A state of emergency was declared throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p> It is worth noting that the strikes on <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/udary-po-iranu-ie-spilnoiu-operatsiieiu-izrailiu-ta-ssha-zmi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran are a joint operation between Israel and the United States<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that any actions by European countries directed against Iran would be regarded as an \u201cact of war.\u201d Euronews reports this . Tehran has warned Europeans against joining the war amid statements by some countries about the possibility of defensive measures. A Foreign Ministry spokesman warned that any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1363986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1365062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1363986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}