Regional de-escalation hinges on end to Israel’s aggression in Gaza: Iraqi prime minister
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani says preventing the escalation of tensions in the region solely hinges on putting an end to the Israeli regime’s “aggression” in the Gaza Strip and preventing its expansion into Lebanon.
Sudani made the remarks in a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday as the two sides discussed the latest regional and international developments and ways to prevent further escalation of tensions, the prime minister’s media office said in a statement.
It added that the Iraqi prime minister stressed the need to deter Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu from conducting any attack on regional countries and halting the regime’s repeated violations of international law and sovereignty.
Meanwhile, the US Department of State also said that Blinken emphasized the importance of all parties taking steps to calm regional tensions, avoid further escalation, and advance stability.
“The secretary affirmed that we remain committed to the US-Iraq 360-degree relationship to build economic opportunities and prosperity for all Iraqis,” it added.
Tensions have been running high in the region following the Israeli regime’s assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday and Fuad Shukr, a senior military commander of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, in Beirut on Tuesday.
Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, alongside other Axis of Resistance leaders. He was assassinated along with his bodyguard, identified as Wasim Abu Shaaban, by the Israeli regime.
Shukr, who had an important role in the formation and consolidation of the resistance front against the Israeli occupation, was also martyred along with two children and two women in the attack on a residential apartment in Dahieh.
In a statement on Monday morning, the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah said it had targeted an Israeli military headquarters in the northern occupied Palestinian territories with a squadron of suicide drones.
The resistance movement added that a number of the regime’s troops were killed or injured in the drone strike.
At least 39,583 Palestinians, mostly children and women, have been killed and 91,398 people wounded in the war that Israel began on October 7, 2023, following a retaliatory operation by the Palestinian territory’s resistance movements.
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