Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian warns of irreversible consequences of wider regional war

The Iranian president has said that Israel wants to drag the Middle East into a full-blown war by provoking Tehran to join the conflict between Tel Aviv  and Hezbollah in Lebanon and warned of its irreversible consequences.

Speaking to journalists upon his arrival in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly, Masoud Pezeshkian, said: “We do not wish to be the cause of instability in the Middle East as its consequences would be irreversible”

He added that we want to live in peace, we don’t want war, saying it is Israel that seeks to create this all-out conflict.

The Iranian president accused the world community of silence over Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Earlier, Israel unleashed an intense wave of air strikes against Hezbollah on Monday, making it the deadliest day in Lebanon in nearly a year of conflict.

Pezeshkian said that they will defend any group that is defending its rights and itself. To a question whether Iran will enter the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, he did not elaborate.

European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell, who is also in New York, termed the situation as nearly a full-fledged war. Borrell urged world leaders to do all they could to stop it, adding: “Here in New York is the moment to do that.”