Iran warned Israel of escalation if it does not put an end to the aggressions against Palestinians, and its foreign minister said other parts of the region are ready to act, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday.
“If Zionist aggression does not stop, all parties in the region are ready to act,” declared Hossein Amirabdollahian.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuvowed on Sunday to “demolish Hamas,” as his army prepared to enter the Gaza Strip to respond to the deadly attack by Islamist militants on Israeli border towns that shocked the world.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that Tehran did not participate in Hamas attack on Israelbut praised Israel’s “irreparable” military and intelligence defeat.
Israel He has long accused Iranian clerical leaders of fomenting violence by supplying weapons to Hamas. Tehran says it provides moral and financial support to the group, which controls the Gaza Strip.
Support for the Palestinian cause has been one of the pillars of the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution and one of the ways in which this Shiite-dominated country has emerged as a leader of the Muslim world.
Amirabdollahian, who last week accused Israel of seeking “genocide” by imposing a siege on the Gaza Strip, said an offensive would “open new fronts of resistance” in the Middle East.
“The responsibility for the possible opening of new resistance fronts in the region and for any escalation of today’s war falls squarely on USA and the Zionist regime (Israel),” said Amirabdollahian.
The Iranian foreign minister met with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Saturday in Qatar, where they discussed the attack in Israel “and agreed to continue cooperating” to achieve the group’s goals, the Islamist group said in a statement.
Previously, the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, He urged France to help “prevent the oppression” of Palestinians in a phone call with his counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
Source: Ambito
