By EFE
Oct 29, 2023, 12:41 PM EDT
The president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, warned this Sunday that Israel’s “crimes” in the Gaza Strip could force “the whole world to act”, in a notice from the Islamic Republic to stop hostilities.
“The crimes of the Zionist regime have crossed all red lines, which can force everyone to act,” the president said on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
Zionist regime’s crimes have crossed the red lines, which may force everyone to take action. Washington asks us not to do anything, but they keep giving widespread support to Israel. The US sent messages to the Axis of Resistance but received a clear response on the battlefield.
— سید ابراهیم رئیسی (@raisi_com) October 29, 2023
Raisí indicated that Washington has asked Tehran to “do nothing”, but continues to support Israel, which has caused more than 7,300 deaths and almost 19,000 injuries in its bombings against Gaza.
“The United States sends messages to the Axis of Resistance, but they receive a response on the battlefield,” he stated.
In recent days, there have been at least 20 drone attacks by pro-Iran militias against US bases in Iraq and Syria, in which 21 soldiers have been lightly injured.
The United States has responded with two attacks against facilities linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria.
Iran has repeatedly threatened the conflict could spread across the region if the Israeli state continues attacks on Gaza, which began after the Islamist group Hamas carried out a surprise attack on the Jewish state on October 7. It caused 1,400 deaths and in which 200 Israelis were kidnapped.
The Iranian Army warned that it has “its finger on the trigger” to respond to any threat, during massive military maneuvers to improve deterrence capacity against new threats with armored vehicles, artillery, missiles, helicopters and drones.
The Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel are bitter enemies, they pose a mutual existential threat, compete for regional hegemony and maintain a covert war with cyberattacks, assassinations and sabotage.
Tehran leads a markedly anti-Israel informal coalition known as the Axis of Resistance, which also includes Hamas, the Lebanese group Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, in addition to other Palestinian, Iraqi and Yemeni militias.
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