Iran’s clerical state backs Hamas, whose bloody assault inside Israel on October 7 triggered major retaliation, and has a close relationship with Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militia that frequently fires into Israel.
“What I gathered from what I heard from them and the plans that they have — they have their finger on the trigger,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said of Lebanese and Palestinian militants he has met.
Speaking to US National Public Radio from the United Nations, where he was attending a General Assembly session on the crisis, Amir-Abdollahian said the militants’ actions would be “much more powerful and deeper…
