Tehran, IRNA - Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s vice president for strategic affairs, has said the Islamic Republic opposes Israel as an occupier and supports those fighting for the liberation of their lands, criticizing efforts to frame this reality as a conflict with Israel.

Mohammad Javad Zarif blamed the sanctions on his country for allegedly facilitating Israel, and linked the issue to the Israeli operations in Lebanon

Iran’s Vice President for Strategic Affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif, revealed that a sabotage attempt targeting the country's uranium enrichment program had been thwarted. The plot involved a rigged component meant for the country’s centrifuges,

‘Israel tried to do the same trick with our uranium enrichment centrifuges as it did with Hezbollah's pagers, but we managed to detect the explosives in time’.’ This statement was made by Iranian Vice President and former Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

Zarif said he believed Trump will be a “very powerful” president, as he has managed to garner the support of a significant portion of the American public, both chambers of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and a majority of US states.

Mohammad Javad Zarif, who was foreign minister when Iran and world powers agreed to the 2015 nuclear deal and is now vice president for strategic affairs, alleged in a recent interview that Israel once planted explosives in Iranian centrifuge equipment,

Israel supplied Iran with centrifuge platforms containing explosives for its nuclear enrichment programme, a top Iranian official has acknowledged for the first time, underscoring the sophistication of sabotage programmes targeting the Islamic Republic.

Iran's Vice President Mohammad Javad Zarif said Israel has succeeded in exploiting the vulnerabilities in the supply chain