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Picture courtesy: (Getty image) Iran’s Foreign Minister issued warning to Israel just hours before Israel attack on Iran.
Iran urged it wouldn’t retaliate against Israel for launching missiles during a drill in central Iran’s Nasr Abad Lufthansa province on Friday, April 19th. However, if Israel decides to retaliate again, the Iranian military will respond with an immediate maximum level. On the other hand, the fears of an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East increase due to the fact that if Iran and Israel engage in further retaliation against each other, there will be a regional war.
Amir-Abdollahianin said, “In case the Israeli regime embarks on adventurism again and takes action against the interests of Iran, the next response from us will be immediate and at a maximum level. We sincerely hoped Israel would not repeat the previous egregious error. If the Israeli regime commits a grave error once again, our response will be decisive, definitive, and regretful for them. This warning had been communicated to the White House via the Swiss Embassy in Tehran.”
According to the statement from Amir-Abdollahian, he urged that potential Israeli actions could be stopped by the US and that the White House would not give renewed permission for adventure-seeking by Israel. He believes that America will calculate, according to messages that were exchanged between them over the past six months, whether American assets could be targeted if the US helps to defend against incoming missiles against Iran. In addition to the previous operation, he announced to the Americans that they would not target American bases and installations in the region other than if they came across a condition in which the United States of America put itself beside the Israeli government in order to expand their warfare intentions.
Amir-Abdollahian said, “The intent of the Iranian strike on Israel last weekend was to let it be known we do have the means to respond.” According to the report by Simone McCarthy and Tara John, The tit-for-tat strikes have brought a decades-long shadow war between Israel and Iran out into the open. Israel’s allies, including the United States, have called for restraint from Israel in a bid to prevent strikes from escalating into a regional war. Israel’s ongoing war against Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza sends tensions between it and its neighbors soaring. It is unclear if Israel will listen to the calls of its allies.