Tehran:
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned Israel’s air strikes on the Lebanese capital’s densely populated southern suburbs Friday as a “flagrant warfare crime.”
“The assaults perpetrated … by the Zionist regime within the Dahiya neighbourhood of Beirut represent a flagrant warfare crime that has revealed as soon as once more the character of this regime’s state terrorism,” Pezeshkian mentioned in a press release carried by the official IRNA information company early Saturday.
Israel mentioned its strikes focused the “central headquarters” of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, an Iranian ally.
Pezeshkian vowed Iran “will stand with the Lebanese nation and the axis of resistance”.
Friday’s strikes have been by far the fiercest to hit Beirut since Israel shifted its focus from the warfare in Gaza to Lebanon this week, pounding Hezbollah strongholds across the nation and killing lots of of individuals.
The Iranian embassy in Lebanon warned that they marked a “harmful escalation” within the Center East.
“This reprehensible crime… represents a harmful escalation that adjustments the principles of the sport,” the embassy mentioned in a publish on X, including that Israel “will obtain the suitable punishment”.
The Iranian overseas ministry mentioned that the “brutal” strike gave the misinform a US-led ceasefire name issued on the eve of the strike.
“The continuation of the Zionist regime’s crimes exhibits clearly that the ceasefire name issued by america and a few Western nations is a blatant trick aimed toward successful time for the Zionist regime to proceed its crimes towards the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples,” ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani mentioned in a press release
Hezbollah began preventing Israeli troops alongside the Lebanon border a day after its Palestinian ally Hamas staged its unprecedented assault on Israel on October 7.
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