Russian Foreign Minister: Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh was an attempt to provoke Iran

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - International Service: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in an interview with the Russian news agency "Ryanovsk", which was broadcast on Saturday night, pointed to the tensions in the West Asian region and said that Iran is also seeking to engage in a military action. not wide Westerners seek to provoke Iran. The assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas political office in Tehran, during the inauguration ceremony of the new president of this country, was a provocative act.

 

The Russian Foreign Minister added: Iran did not react at that time, but declared that it reserves the right to react because its territorial integrity and sovereignty have been violated; Because a guest of the Islamic Republic of Iran was deliberately assassinated on the soil of this country.

 

He stated: Currently, Israel seems to be the only party that wants a big war between itself and Iran with the intervention of neighboring countries. Israel has never hidden its desire to abuse this situation and they want to use this situation once and for all to try to deal with Hamas, Hezbollah and other groups aligned with Iran in Syria and Iraq and solve their challenges.

 

Lavrov also said: This is another example of hypocrisy and double standards shown by the West with all its "charms" about the need to implement the UN Charter, respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of different countries. If you respect sovereignty, the Palestinian state, by the decision of the UN Security Council, must be established precisely on the basis of its territorial integrity, within the borders recorded in this resolution, and now they are trying to create some kind of "alternative" such as the closed areas under impose the control of the Israeli regime on the Palestinians along the outer perimeter of the borders.

 

Previously, the Russian Foreign Minister said that the Zionist regime cannot destroy the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement or Lebanon's Hezbollah and should look for alternative ways to resolve issues peacefully without using force.