Tehran:
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned Israel’s air strikes on the Lebanese capital’s densely populated southern suburbs Friday as a “flagrant struggle crime.”
“The assaults perpetrated … by the Zionist regime within the Dahiya neighbourhood of Beirut represent a flagrant struggle crime that has revealed as soon as once more the character of this regime’s state terrorism,” Pezeshkian mentioned in an announcement 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 struggle in Gaza to Lebanon this week, pounding Hezbollah strongholds across the nation and killing tons 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 modifications the foundations of the sport,” the embassy mentioned in a publish on X, including that Israel “will obtain the suitable punishment”.
The Iranian international ministry mentioned that the “brutal” strike gave the mislead a US-led ceasefire name issued on the eve of the strike.
“The continuation of the Zionist regime’s crimes reveals clearly that the ceasefire name issued by the USA and a few Western international locations is a blatant trick geared toward profitable time for the Zionist regime to proceed its crimes towards the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples,” ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani mentioned in an announcement
Hezbollah began combating 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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