Iran warns against ‘dangerous consequences’ of Israel’s new adventurism in Lebanon
Iran warns against the “dangerous consequences” of Israel’s new “adventurism” in Lebanon, following the regime’s extensive airstrikes on Lebanese towns and villages.
Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli strikes on southern towns and villages since Monday morning killed 274 people and wounded over 1000 others, in the worst toll by far in nearly a year of cross-border clashes between the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah and Israel.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani on Monday vehemently denounced Israel’s large-scale aggression on residential areas in south Lebanon and the killing of hundreds of its defenseless people as insane.
He lashed out at the United States and some Western supporters of Israel for keeping silent and even supporting the regime.
He cautioned that Israel continues its criminal acts against the people of Palestine in the Gaza Strip and seeks to drag the entire region into a war.
The Israeli regime’s warplanes conduct extensive airstrikes against towns and villages across Lebanon, killing at least 182 people.
Kan’ani said that appeasement against Israel’s crimes against Palestinians in the past year has encouraged the regime to continue its criminal and genocidal acts.
The Iranian spokesperson emphasized that the continuation of Israel’s crimes in Palestine and the spread of the regime’s criminal acts to Lebanon are a “clear example of a serious threat to regional and international peace and security.”
He called on the United Nations Security Council to take a swift measure to put an end to Israel’s crimes.
The large-scale Israeli attacks follow Hezbollah’s farthest-reaching Sunday strikes against the territories since October, firing scores of rockets against the Ramat David Airbase, southeast of the city of Haifa, and the Rafael weapons manufacturing facility in the Zevulun area north of the city.
Hezbollah’s attacks forced around 300,000 Israelis to run to shelters. The movement intensified retaliatory attacks after Israel detonated thousands of communication devices in Lebanon and launched missile strikes on the south, killing dozens, including a senior Hezbollah commander.
