united nations – Iran’s foreign minister warned Friday that Lebanese and Palestinian militants had their ‘finger on the trigger’ in anticipation of an Israeli ground offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
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 Amirabdollahian said of Lebanese and Palestinian militants he has met.
Speaking to U.S. National Public Radio from the United Nations, where he was attending a General Assembly session on the crisis, Amirabdollahian said the militants’ actions would be ‘much more powerful and deeper than what you’ve witnessed.’
‘Therefore,…
