Araghchi: West Asia cannot endure more conflicts over Israel’s onslaught
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that West Asia “cannot withstand further tensions and conflicts” as the Israeli regime continues its aggression on regional countries.
His warning in an interview with the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) on Thursday came as Israel’s war minister, Israel Katz, said that Tel Aviv is prepared to launch a new war on Lebanon.
“What is important is that the region cannot withstand further tensions and conflicts, and the main factor behind these tensions and conflicts is the Zionist regime, which has unfortunately been given an unacceptable immunity by the United States and Western countries, allowing it to do whatever it wants and for them to prevent any action against the Zionist regime in international forums," Araghchi said.
Israeli regime has intensified its attacks on Lebanon in recent months despite a ceasefire reached between the regime and Lebanon’s resistance group Hezbollah in November 2024.
Since then, the regime has carried out almost 700 airstrikes on Lebanon at a rate of two attacks per day, an Israeli security institute said on Thursday.
The ceasefire was reached after more than a year of attacks against the backdrop of the Gaza war. Over 4,000 people were killed, and 17,000 others were injured in the attacks. Under the ceasefire, the Israeli army was supposed to withdraw from southern Lebanon this January, but instead only partially pulled out and continues to maintain a military presence at five border outposts.
In the report, the Alma Research and Education Center found that 699 airstrikes were launched by the Israeli army across Lebanon over the past year on the pretext of targeting Hezbollah infrastructure.
On Sunday, an Israeli airstrike in Beirut killed the senior Hezbollah commander Haitham Ali Tabatabai.
Since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strop in 2023, the regime has also targeted several regional countries including Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Iran.
In the latest attacks, 13 people were killed and 25 others wounded in an Israeli raid in southern Syria on Friday, Syrian state media reported, with Damascus accusing Israel of a "criminal attack" in a village where Israel claimed its troops came under fire during an operation to arrest militants.
The Israeli military said six soldiers were wounded, three of them severely, by militant fire during the raid in the village of Beit Jinn.