“We have always had political, media and international support for Palestine. We have never denied this,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said
THE Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian said today that Iran does not want the war to “spread” after the October 7 attack by Palestinian Hamas militants on Israel that killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians.
Since then Israel has been bombing it Gaza Strip with airstrikes and has launched ground operations aimed at destroying the Iranian-backed Islamist group Hamas and returning more than 200 people kidnapped by Israel and taken to Gaza.
“We don’t want this war to spread,” Amirabdolakhian told CNN.
Iran probably knew Hamas was planning “operations against Israel”, they have said USAbut initial US intelligence reports indicated that some Iranian leaders were taken by surprise by the attack, the deadliest in Israel’s history.
Amirabdollahian today rejected claims directly linking Iran to the attacks, calling them “baseless”.
“We have always had political, media and international support for Palestine. We have never denied that,” he said.
“That is the truth, but in relation to this so-called business Al Aqsa stormthere was no connection in this data between Iran and this Hamas operation, not my government or part of my country.”
US and coalition troops have been attacked at least 19 times in Iraq and Syria by Iran-backed forces in the past week.
Amirabdollahian said linking Iran to any attack in the region, when US interests are targeted, without providing evidence, is “absolutely wrong”.
People in the region are angry, he said, and “they don’t take orders from us. They act according to their own interests. Also, what happened, what was done by Hamas, was completely Palestinian.”
The United States said at the United Nations on Tuesday that it did not seek conflict with Iran, but Secretary of State Anthony Blinken warned that Washington would act swiftly and decisively if Iran or its proxies attacked US personnel anywhere.
The Pentagon said on Thursday that the US military had struck two weapons and ammunition storage sites in eastern Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and groups it supports.
Source :Skai
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