Israel wants to drag Middle East into a full-scale war, provoking Iran to join the almost year-long conflict between Israel and the Tehran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, the Iranian president said, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
Massud Pezeshkian warned about the "irreversible” consequences of this.
The Iranian president, speaking to a group of journalists after arriving in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly, said: "We do not wish to be the cause of instability in the Middle East, as the consequences will be irreversible.&ldquo ;.
"We want to live in peace, we don't want war,”, he added. "It is Israel that is trying to create this all-out conflict.“
Pezeshkian, a relatively moderate politician who was elected in July promising a pragmatic foreign policy, accused the international community of remaining silent on what he called "Israeli genocide” in Gaza.
Pezeshkian's call for a dialogue solution to the Middle East conflict came after Israel unleashed an intense wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah today, making it the deadliest day in Lebanon in the nearly year-long conflict between Israel and the Tehran-backed group.
„We will defend any group that defends its rights and itself,” Pezeshkian said when asked if Iran would enter the conflict between Israel and "Hezbollah". He did not elaborate.