Europa Press and Sputnik
The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, August 6, 2024, p. 23
Tehran. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri told his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi yesterday that Israel should receive a harsh response to make it clear that their actions in the region will have a high pricebut assured that the Islamic Republic does not want a total war, while the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Hosein Salami, warned Tel Aviv that with its attacks on Gaza and the escalation of tensions in the region it is digging his own grave.
The assassination of Ismail Haniyeh (political leader of Hamas, last Wednesday) is an action contrary to all norms of international law and customs, a violation of regional security and stability, as well as the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Islamic Republic.Ali Bagheri said in a statement.
We seek stability in the region and that is achieved by punishing the aggressor.the Iranian Foreign Ministry said, although it clarified that it is not seeking an all-out war with Israel, Bloomberg reported.
In talks with his Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijarto, Foreign Minister Bagheri said that his country would attack Israel, and the Hungarian foreign minister informed his Israeli counterpart Israel Kat of this statement, according to Euronews.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated the threat of make pay a high price to any type of aggression wherever it comes fromwhile the United States called on its allies to send messages to Iran not to retaliate against Tel Aviv.
The Secretary of State and other officials are reaching out to all relevant parties in the region to make clear that escalation is in no one’s interest.spokesman Matthew Miller said yesterday.
He added that Washington believes that an escalation of the Middle East conflict by Iran would only put the entire region at risk.
Diplomatic efforts to prevent the situation in the region from escalating have intensified as many countries are asking their citizens to leave Lebanon.
Deeply concernedthe United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called from Geneva all parties to act urgently to prevent the conflict from spreading.
Iran has issued a warning to pilots and aviation authorities to avoid its airspace as the government threatens to attack Israel, the statement said. The Wall Street Journal.
He added that Tehran’s notification is typically used by aviation authorities to provide pilots with essential information in real time and is a message to commercial and civil aviation to stay away, with no indication of what may follow.