Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, warned Israel on Friday that Lebanese and Palestinian Arab terrorists had their “finger on the trigger” to respond to an Israeli ground operation in the Gaza Strip.
“What I gathered from what I heard from them and the plans that they have — they have their finger on the trigger,” he said, as quoted by AFP.
Speaking to National Public Radio from the United Nations, where he was attending a General Assembly session on the crisis in the Middle East, Amir-Abdollahian said the actions would be “much more powerful and deeper than what you’ve witnessed.”
“Therefore I believe that if this situation continues and women and children and civilians are still killed in Gaza and the West Bank, anything will be possible,” he was quoted as having said.
Amir-Abdollahian insisted, however, that Iran does not tell its proxies when to act and they would decide on their own rather than at the behest of Iran.
“We don’t really want this conflict to spread out,” he claimed.





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