Iran FM warns any attack on Beirut will trigger 'full-scale resumption of war'
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned on Wednesday that any attack on Lebanese capital Beirut would trigger a "full-scale resumption" of the Middle East war, as Israel pressed its campaign against Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
"Any attack on Beirut will have grave consequences and will lead to a full-scale resumption of the war," the Tasnim news agency quoted Araghchi as telling Lebanon's Al Mayadeen TV. "Our armed forces are ready to strike Israel if it attacks Beirut."
"Either the war stops in Iran and Lebanon, or it won't stop, neither in Iran nor in Lebanon ... The fate of Iran and Lebanon is one and interwined in war and its end," Araghchi added.
Source: Agence France Presse, Naharnet
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