Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani Chafi says that the current situation in the Middle East shows that the military presence of external actors in the region is one of the destabilizing factors: transmits TASS. According to him, Tehran has always followed a policy aimed at ensuring security and stability in the Middle East.
“Since the beginning of the current crisis in the Gaza Strip, Iran has been making continuous efforts to stop hostilities. We are trying to protect defenseless civilians in the region from Israeli aggression,” stressed Kanani Chafi.
He added that G7 countries had raised false suspicions against Tehran because of its support for the Palestinian movement Hamas and the Lebanese group Hezbollah. Kanani Chafi emphasized that Iran expected the G7 to condemn Israel’s Gaza operation, but the organization never condemned it.
On October 7, Hamas launched thousands of rockets into Israel and announced the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Thousands of militants invaded Israeli territory, seizing dozens of military equipment and more than a hundred hostages. Against this background, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the country was at war.
The IDF’s intervention operation was called “Iron Swords” and one of its goals was the destruction of Hamas. The Israeli Air Force launched an attack on hundreds of militant targets in the Gaza Strip, and the country’s National Security Council decided to cut off water, food, goods, electricity and fuel supplies to the region. Israel announced to the UN on October 13 that 1.1 million Palestinians would be evacuated to southern Gaza ahead of the ground operation.
Previously USA stated Iran does not want the conflict in the Middle East to escalate.