The 21st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., attends the Armed Forces Farewell Ceremony honoring General Milley and an Armed Forces Salute honoring General Brown at Summerall Field at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., September 29, 2023. Portal/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo Acquire License Rights
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY PLANE, Oct 9 (Portal) – The top general of the United States warned Iran on Monday against interfering in the crisis in Israel, saying he did not want the conflict to spread as The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into northern Israel
The White House said earlier Monday that Iran was complicit, even though the United States has no intelligence or evidence indicating direct Iranian involvement in attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Israel.
Asked what his message was to Iran, Gen. Charles Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: “Don’t get involved.”
An Israeli shelling in Lebanon killed at least three Hezbollah fighters on Monday, and Israel said one of its officers was killed in an earlier cross-border raid that Palestinians said was in Lebanon.
The cross-border violence marked a significant expansion of a conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip to the Israel-Lebanese border further north.
Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel fought a brutal, month-long war in 2006.
“We want to send a pretty strong message. We don’t want this to expand, and the idea is for Iran to get that message across loud and clear,” Brown said in his first public comments to a small group of reporters who traveled with him to Brussels since I spoke for the last month position was confirmed.
The US military is “providing” Israel with new shipments of air defense equipment, ammunition and other security assistance to help it respond to an unprecedented weekend attack by Hamas.
On Sunday, the Pentagon announced it was sending an aircraft carrier strike group closer to Israel.
“It sends a very strong message of support for Israel. “But it is also intended to send a strong message of deterrence to contain the expansion of this particular conflict,” Brown said.
He compared Hamas’ actions to those of Islamic State militants.
Brown served as deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, and oversaw coalition air operations against the Islamic State.
Reporting by Idrees Ali; Edited by Sandra Maler and Jamie Freed
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