Iran ‘ready’ to give decisive response to any Israeli adventurism: FM tells UN chief

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned of the Islamic Republic’s decisive response to any acts of adventurism by the Israeli regime, amid heightened escalation following Tel Aviv’s recent assassination of the resistance front’s leaders and top commanders.

Araghchi made the statement in a phone conversation with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres as the two discussed the ongoing developments in the region as well as Israel’s brutal onslaught on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

Pointing to the catastrophic humanitarian situation caused by Israel’s continued genocide in Gaza and its aggression on Lebanon, the top Iranian diplomat asked the UN chief to use all the capacities of the international body in order to stop the crimes and aggression of the Israeli regime and to send humanitarian aid to Lebanon and Gaza.

Reiterating Iran’s principled stance on the necessity of maintaining peace and stability in the region, Araghchi said, “The Islamic Republic of Iran, while making an all-out effort to safeguard regional peace and security, is fully prepared for a decisive and regret-inducing response to any adventurism by the Zionist regime.”

He underlined that the responsibility for the consequences of the spread of insecurity in the region will rest with the Israeli regime and its main supporter, the United States.

Guterres, for his part, expressed concerns over the heightened tensions in the region following Israel’s continued attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, stressing the need to reach a political solution in order to end the war and the need to provide aid to the injured and displaced people in Gaza and Lebanon.

Placing a premium on the significance of protecting Lebanon's sovereignty, the UN chief highlighted the continued deployment of his organization's peacekeeping forces in the south of the country despite threats.

The two sides also discussed developments in Yemen and the humanitarian situation in the Arab country.

Senior IRGC commander: Iran to give ‘harsh’ response to any mistake by enemy

Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Division, says the elite force and Iranian armed forces are ready to give a ‘regretful response’ to the enemy in case of any mistake.

The Iranian foreign minister has been making a flurry of regional trips over the past weeks with the aim of keeping up Tehran's diplomatic efforts aimed at bringing about cessation of the Israeli regime’s ongoing regional atrocities.

The trips have taken Araghchi to Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, Syria, Oman and Jordan.

Iran fired a barrage of missiles towards at the Israeli entity’s military, and espionage and intelligence bases all over the occupied territories on October 1 as part of Operation True Promise II.

The operation came in response to the regime’s assassination of senior leaders of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance front and a commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). Israel has since vowed to respond.

Hezbollah has launched hundreds of such strikes against the occupied territories since last October, when the regime began bringing Gaza under a genocidal war and intensifying its deadly attacks against Lebanon. The war and the escalation have so far claimed the lives of more than 42,300 Palestinians and upwards of 2,300 Lebanese people.

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