Iran has warned Israel and the US that the situation in the Middle East risks ‘spinning out of control’

Iranian diplomacy is calling on the US and Israel to “put an immediate end to crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza”, believing the region to be “like a powder keg”.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdullahian warned the United States and Israel this Sunday, October 22, that the situation in the Middle East will become “uncontrollable” if these two countries do not “immediately put an end to the crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza.”

“Today, the region is a powder bowl (…),” Hossein Amir-Abdullahian said during a statement in Tehran with his South African counterpart, Naledi Bandor.

“I want to warn the US and Israeli puppet regime that if there is no immediate end to the crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza, anything is possible and the region will spiral out of control,” he said. He was then.

The international community fears an escalation of the conflict between Hamas and Israel, which began on October 7 and is heavily involved in Lebanon’s Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamist movement. The United States has announced that it is strengthening its military assets in the region to prevent a widespread outbreak.

Possible “serious consequences”

“Any miscalculation in the continuation of the conflict, genocide, massacres and forced migration of residents of Gaza and the West Bank will have serious consequences,” he warned.

Naledi Bandor called on the international community to “pay more attention” to the fate of Palestinians in the context of the “shameful attack” on Gaza.

More than 1,400 people were killed in Israel, the majority of civilians shot, burned alive or mutilated in a day of attacks by Hamas in Israel on October 7, according to Israeli officials.

In the Gaza Strip, at least 4,651 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in relentless shelling by the Israeli army in retaliation, according to the Health Ministry of Hamas, which controls the Palestinian territories. Iran praised the Hamas attack and clarified that it was not involved.