{"id":113826,"date":"2023-10-15T07:53:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T12:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=113826"},"modified":"2023-10-15T07:53:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T12:53:46","slug":"iran-not-too-late-to-prevent-israel-hamas-war-widening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2023\/10\/15\/iran-not-too-late-to-prevent-israel-hamas-war-widening\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Not too Late to Prevent Israel-Hamas War Widening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dateline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113827 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hossein-Amirabdollahian-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hossein-Amirabdollahian-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hossein-Amirabdollahian-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hossein-Amirabdollahian-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hossein-Amirabdollahian-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hossein-Amirabdollahian-48x32.jpg 48w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hossein-Amirabdollahian.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 BEIRUT, LEBANON \u2014 <\/span>Iran said Saturday it was still possible to prevent a regional spillover of Israel&#8217;s war with Islamist group Hamas but warned that time was quickly running out.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian spoke from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, a week after hundreds of Hamas gunmen stormed from Gaza into Israel and killed at least 1,300 people, mostly civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has since been pounding Hamas targets in Gaza, where authorities say more than 2,200 people have been killed in the retaliatory strikes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is still a political opportunity to prevent a widespread crisis in the region,&#8221; Amirabdollahian told a news conference in Beirut after stops in Baghdad and Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;maybe, in the next few hours, it will be too late,&#8221; he said, warning that pro-Iran militants &#8220;have designed all the scenarios and are prepared, and their finger is on the trigger to shoot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although Tehran has long backed Hamas \u2014 which rules Gaza \u2014 financially and militarily, Iran has denied involvement in the group&#8217;s attack on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>During stops in Damascus and Baghdad in the last days, Amirabdollahian did not rule out the possibility of an escalation that could draw its regional allies into the Israeli-Hamas war.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has traded fire with Iran-backed Hezbollah and allied Palestinian factions in Lebanon on a near-daily basis since Sunday, although the tit-for-tat attacks have remained limited.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Hezbollah said three of its members were killed in Israeli strikes on south Lebanon after Palestinian militants tried to slip across the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 BEIRUT, LEBANON \u2014 Iran said Saturday it was still possible to prevent a regional spillover of Israel&#8217;s war with Islamist group Hamas but warned that time was quickly running out. Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian spoke from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, a week after hundreds of Hamas gunmen stormed from Gaza into Israel and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113829,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113826\/revisions\/113829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}