{"id":1692,"date":"2026-07-31T08:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:24:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:24:02","slug":"irans-araghchi-warns-against-israeli-plots-following-drone-attack-on-damietta-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1692","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Araghchi warns against Israeli plots following drone attack on Damietta port"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailynewsegypt.com\/2026\/07\/Irans-Araghchi-warns-against-Israeli-plots-following-drone-attack-on-Egyptian-port.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Iran\u2019s Araghchi warns against Israeli plots following drone attack on Damietta port\" title=\"Iran\u2019s Araghchi warns against Israeli plots following drone attack on Damietta port\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_781bc03ecf9f0ed8\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-busy=\"false\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\"><b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\/> Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned against alleged Israeli \u201cfalse-flag operations\u201d designed to undermine regional peace, following a denial by Yemen\u2019s Houthi group that it was involved in a recent drone attack on Egypt\u2019s Damietta Port.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">In a statement posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/araghchi\/status\/2082917620265914380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a>, Araghchi described Egypt as an \u201cimportant friend and partner in the region,\u201d stressing that Cairo\u2019s security is of utmost importance to Tehran.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">\u201cWe must all be vigilant against Israeli plots and false-flag operations designed to undermine regional peace,\u201d Araghchi said. \u201cThe threat is clear, mutual, and fearful of Muslim solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">The minister\u2019s comments come after Yemen\u2019s Houthi group on Thursday rejected media reports linking it to the incident. A Houthi source told the group-affiliated Saba news agency that there was \u201cno truth to the rumors\u201d alleging the group had targeted a vessel at the Egyptian port on the Mediterranean coast.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">Egyptian authorities previously reported that a July 29 drone attack ignited a fire aboard a regasification ship and an adjacent storage vessel at Damietta. The Egyptian government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/2026\/07\/30\/egypt-prime-minister-details-response-to-damietta-port-drone-attack-confirms-energy-supplies-unaffected\/\">stated<\/a> that no group had claimed responsibility for the incident, which required a 14-hour firefighting operation and prompted Cairo to activate strategic energy backup plans to maintain national power grid stability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned against alleged Israeli \u201cfalse-flag operations\u201d designed to undermine regional peace, following a denial by Yemen\u2019s Houthi group that it was involved in a recent drone attack on Egypt\u2019s Damietta Port. In a statement posted on X, Araghchi described Egypt as an \u201cimportant friend and partner in the region,\u201d stressing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.dailynewsegypt.com\/2026\/07\/Irans-Araghchi-warns-against-Israeli-plots-following-drone-attack-on-Egyptian-port.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3248,86,3168,118,2012,2917,3249,3169,263],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-araghchi","tag-attack","tag-damietta","tag-drone","tag-irans","tag-israeli","tag-plots","tag-port","tag-warns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}