Iranian FM warns large-scale Israeli attack on Lebanon spells Netanyahu’s demise
As tensions rise amid attacks on the Gaza Strip, Iran’s foreign minister says an attack on Lebanon would be the end of Netanyahu
“Any move by the Zionist regime (Israel) for a large-scale attack on Lebanon will spell the end of Netanyahu” Iran’s top diplomat, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, warned reporters during a visit to Beirut.
Israeli forces and Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah group, a Hamas ally, have traded near-daily fire following the outbreak of war on October 7 between Israel and the Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip.
Amir-Abdollahian met top officials in Beirut including Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a powerful ally of the group.
He also met Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziad Nakhaleh, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan, and deputy chief of the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine Jamil Mazhar, the statement said.
“Only the Palestinian nation and Palestinian groups have the exclusive right to determine their own destiny,” he said, adding that “other regional and international actors should refrain from imposing their plans”.
Source: Newsroom & Agence France-Presse
