Iran’s foreign minister warned in Doha on Sunday that “no one” could “guarantee control of the situation” if Israel launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, his ministry said.
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Hossein Amir-Habdollahian visited Qatar on Sunday as part of a regional tour that also took him to Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.
The head of Iranian diplomacy was received by the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, with whom he discussed “the development of the situation in the Palestinian territories,” Qatari press agency QNA said.
The Islamic Republic provides financial and military support to Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that launched a bloody attack against Israel on October 7, sparking a deadly war in the Gaza Strip.
“If the Zionist regime’s attacks against the defenseless population of Gaza continue, no one can guarantee control of the situation and the prospect of an expansion of the conflict,” said Hossein Amir-Habdollahian during his meeting with the Qatari leader, according to a statement from the Iranian Foreign Ministry .
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Israel and the United States fear the opening of a second front in northern Israel on the border with Lebanon if Hezbollah, another Iranian-backed movement, decides to massively intervene in the war between Israel and its Palestinian ally.
The minister specified that the parties that “want to prevent the spread of the crisis must prevent the barbaric attacks of the Zionist regime,” the press release said.
Mr. Amir-Abdollahian also noted that senior Hamas officials he met in Beirut and Doha in recent days considered “the issue of civilian prisoners” as “a priority of their program” and that “if the “If conditions were guaranteed, they would adopt appropriate measures,” the statement continued.
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