Istanbul, Mar 10 (EFE).- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, during a conversation with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, denied that the two ballistic missiles intercepted in recent days have been launched by Iran, the Turkish government said on Tuesday.
Erdogan spoke to Pezeshkian overnight stressing that Turkey was not involved in the conflict and that violating its airspace could not be excused.
On Monday and last week on Wednesday, NATO air defense systems intercepted ballistic missiles, which the Turkish defense ministry believed were launched from Iran.
Pezeshkian assured Erdogan that the missiles that entered Turkish airspace did not come from Iran and promised to open an investigation into the matter, according to a statement by the Turkish Presidency posted on social media platform X.
On Thursday, the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff denied launching both the missile intercepted in Turkey the day before, and drones that hit an airport in Azerbaijan.
On Monday, Turkish media reported that Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ismael Bagaei, in a press conference, denied having carried out any attack against Turkey, Azerbaijan and Cyprus, because they were not involved in the conflict.
Erdogan told Pezeshkian in his latest phone conversation that neither the “illegal” offensives against Iran nor the Iranian counterattacks against the regional Gulf countries were acceptable.
He also expressed condolences for the loss of life, especially for the girls killed in the attack on a school in Minab, as well as for the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and sent congratulations to his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, for being elected his successor. EFE
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