Iran: US will pay heavy price for Israeli crimes; foreign forces must leave region
The Iranian defense minister has warned that the United States and Israel will pay dearly for all the crimes that they are committing in the region.
“It has been proven to the whole that the Zionist regime is a criminal regime and that the US’s biggest mistake is supporting the child-killing regime. They must know that they will definitely pay the price for all these crimes,” Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani said on Saturday.
The defense minister referred to mounting political and economic pressure on Israel to end its bloody war on the besieged Gaza Strip, which began on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group launched a surprise attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, in the occupied territories.
Ashtiani noted that Operation Al-Aqsa Storm “took the Zionist regime by surprise in all fields and put it in jeopardy,” and inflicted a “heavy defeat” on the occupation.
According to Ashtiani the operation essentially led to the collapse of the regime politically and militarily.
“It also led the Americans to seriously feel the danger of the regime’s complete ouster and thus to support it, a path also followed by some European countries,” he said.
The Iranian defense minister further advised the US and certain European countries to leave the region and not to seek to spark tensions, warning them of a reaction from the entire region and the Axis of Resistance.
People in West Asia will witness that the usurping Israeli regime will be “completely overthrown” and that security will return to our region, he added.
Since the start of the aggression against Gaza, the Tel Aviv regime has killed 14,854 Palestinians, including 6,150 children and 4,000 women, and injured at least 36,000 others.
It has also imposed a “complete siege” on the coastal sliver, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.
A four-day truce took effect on Friday to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza and a captive-for-prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel.
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