to report «iusnews»; Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that the Israeli authorities will drown Washington in a "war morass" in the region as the regime has so far failed to achieve the objectives of its military onslaught in the Gaza Strip despite four months of relentless aerial bombardment and ground invasion.
During a press conference upon arrival in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Friday, Amir Abdollahian warned the United States against its continued support for Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu, adding such unqualified support will have no result but “absolute defeat”.
“The Zionist regime (Israel) seeks to drown the United States in the quagmire of war in West Asia,” the top diplomat stressed.
Since the beginning of hostilities in the besieged enclave in early October, Iran has maintained that war is not a solution to the Palestinian issue, the minister continued.
Israel has been carrying out heavy bombardment across the Gaza Strip since early October, killing nearly 28,000 Palestinians, including thousands of children and women, and wounding almost 68,000 others, and levelling entire neighbourhoods. Thousands more are missing and feared buried under the rubble. Tel Aviv has also imposed a "complete siege" on Gaza, cutting off food, electricity, fuel and water supplies. The move has plunged the blockaded territory into a humanitarian crisis.
American and European officials have promised rock-solid and unwavering support to Tel Aviv. In recent months, President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and several others European leaders visited Tel Aviv to show their support for Israel. Tehran says the Western leaders' trips to the occupied territories are aimed at giving artificial respiration to Israel and demonstrate the US' and Europe's concerns over the downfall of the Zionist regime.
The United States has been providing Israel with unconditional military and political support in its onslaught against Gaza, arming Tel Aviv with more than 10,000 tons of military hardware. The US has also torpedoed the prospect of cessation of the Israeli aggression by stonewalling ratification of all UN Security Council resolutions that have been calling for a permanent ceasefire in the Israeli assault.
Iranian officials say the United States is waging a war on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip through Israel, and stress if Washington’s political and military aid to Zionists is cut off, the regime won’t be able to proceed its military campaign against the blockaded territory.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Amir Abdollahian said Israel has failed to gain any of its goals in Gaza thanks to the resistance by the Palestinians as well as Lebanon and the entire West Asia. The Palestinian and Lebanese resistance leaders, he added, have displayed a tactfully wise attitude in action and politics.
“Today, we see the victorious Palestinian resistance has put a political plan in the name of Hamas on the table,” he continued.
