BEIRUT (Dispatches) — Iran’s foreign minister on Saturday called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, warning that the war might expand to other parts of the Middle East if Hezbollah joins the battle, and that would make the Zionist regime suffer “a huge earthquake.”
Hussein Amir-Abdollahian told reporters in Beirut that Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement has taken all the scenarios of a war into consideration and Israel should stop its attacks on Gaza as soon as possible.
The occupying regime considers Hezbollah its most serious adversary, estimating it has some 150,000 rockets and missiles, including precision-guided missiles that can hit anywhere in Occupied Palestine. The movement, which has thousands of battle-hardened fighters who participated in 12-year war on Syria, also has different types of military drones.
Hezbollah fighters have been on full alert along Lebanon’s borders following last Saturday’s operation by Hamas that left hundreds of Zionists dead.
On Friday, Hezbollah said its fighters fired several rockets at four Israeli positions along the Lebanese border. Amir-Abdollahian added: “I want to warn the war criminals and those who support this entity before it’s too late to stop the crimes against civilians in Gaza, because it might be too late in few hours.”
The Iranian foreign minister said he will be contacting UN officials in the Middle East because “there is still an opportunity to work on an initiative (to end the war) but it might be too late tomorrow.”
The possibility of a new front in Lebanon brings back bitter memories of a monthlong war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006 that ended in a tense stalemate.
Amir-Abdollahian said he met Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who briefed him on the movement’s conditions in Lebanon.
“I know about the scenarios that Hezbollah has put in place,” Amir-Abdollahian said. “Any step the resistance (Hezbollah) will take will cause a huge earthquake in the Zionist entity.”
“I found out in the conversations with the resistance leaders that their response will make the regime regret and will change the current map of the occupied territories,” he said.
Underling the resistance front’s high capabilities to act independently, Amir-Abdollahian said, “Iran actively supports the resistance of the Palestinian people against the occupation and its war crimes at political and media levels.”
“Today, the Zionists are in the worst condition and the victorious Operation Al-Aqsa Storm proved this once again,” he said.
“Today, the leaders of the resistance enjoy remarkable cohesion, have designed the whole scenarios and everyone’s finger is on the trigger,” Amir-Abdollahian added.
Asked about the time of the resistance front’s response to Israeli atrocities, he said, “In case of procrastination by the international community and the United Nations ... the response will be done at the right time desired by the resistance.”
In Damascus, Amir-Abdollahian met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, emphasizing that the resistance front possesses the capability to stand up against the apartheid Israeli regime for a long period of time.
He also scoffed at Washington’s call on Palestinian groups to exercise restraint while it is supplying the Zionist military with various types of ammunition to be used against ordinary people in the Gaza Strip.
Amir-Abdollahian said some international and Western authorities are in contact with Iranian officials, and the two sides are exchanging views on the latest developments in Palestine.
He said Iran and Syria’s support for the Palestinian resistance is known to all, but the recent operation by fighters from Hamas and other groups was purely Palestinian in nature.
Amir-Abdollahian also pointed to the critical and miserable situation in Gaza, stressing the need for concerted efforts to prevent further Israeli atrocities in the enclave.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has therefore demanded an emergency foreign ministerial meeting of the Organization of

Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and voiced its readiness to host such an event,” he said.
President Assad said Israeli authorities and their advocates want to reverse the course in light of the recent developments or use the Palestinian attacks as an excuse to root out the resistance front.
Such an approach is being directed under the tutelage of the United States and certain Western countries, the Syrian leader said.
He said the reason why Westerners stand by Israel is because of the regime’s acute political, economic and social crises, and their concerns of a looming collapse.