Iranian Foreign Minister reiterates Iran is fully prepared to defend its sovereignty, territorial integrity, national security and interests against aggressors, while welcoming diplomatic solutions that secure the rights of the Iranian people

Statements of this kind from Iranian foreign ministry officials are a recurring feature of every flare-up cycle and have historically carried little informational content on their own; the formula pairing readiness to defend sovereignty with openness to diplomacy is the standard dual-track phrasing Tehran uses whether tensions are escalating or de-escalating, so the remark itself does not distinguish between the two. What has mattered in comparable episodes is not the rhetoric but the accompanying sequence: troop or proxy movements, naval activity around the Strait of Hormuz, and any shift in the tempo of indirect or back-channel contacts. The crude complex is where this kind of headline typically prints first, with risk premia in benchmarks and in tanker and insurance costs responding to physical-disruption signals rather than to ministerial language. The tell worth noting is whether this framing is repeated by senior security or Supreme National Security Council figures, or only at the diplomatic level, since the former has tended to precede actual posture changes while the latter is routine. Absent any new operational detail, this reads as positioning rather than escalation.