Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said today from Beirut that a large-scale Israeli attack on Lebanon “would mean the end” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A sworn enemy of Israel, Iran is an ally of the Palestinian Hamas, which has been at war with the Israeli army in Gaza since October 7, and of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which, in a show of solidarity with the Palestinians, exchanges fire daily with Israeli soldiers on the border Israel-Lebanon.

“Any action by the Zionist regime (Israel) to launch a large-scale attack against Lebanon would mean the end of Netanyahu,” said Amir Abdullahian, who was making his third visit to Lebanon since October 7.

Earlier in the week, Lebanese authorities said French foreign minister Stephane Cezournet, visiting Beirut, had warned them that Israel could launch a war against Lebanon “to bring back home” the tens of thousands of displaced residents. from areas of northern Israel near the border with Lebanon.

According to the Iranian minister, “the Zionist regime will never be able to fight on two fronts.” Abdollahian met in Beirut with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who wields a lot of influence in Lebanon, a senior Lebanon-based Hamas official, Osama Hamdan, as well as Islamic Jihad leader Ziad al-Nakala. of a Palestinian armed movement in Gaza fighting alongside Hamas.

“Only the Palestinian nation and Palestinian organizations have the sole right to determine their future,” he said.

The war was sparked by Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, which killed more than 1,160 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.

In retaliation, Israel vowed to “destroy” Hamas and launched an offensive that has already killed more than 28,000 people in Gaza, the vast majority of them civilians, according to the Islamist movement’s health ministry.