TEHRAN -- Iran’s foreign minister says the United States and the occupying regime of Israel have failed to eradicate the Palestinian Hamas resistance group and lost their war on the besieged Gaza Strip.
Hussein Amir-Abdollahian said the current humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas was the result of the failure of Washington and Tel Aviv to eliminate Hamas through the war.
“Today, we see that the U.S. and Israel are not capable of destroying Hamas in Gaza. Hamas is a liberation and legitimate movement and will remain in Palestine,” he said in an interview with Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen TV channel.
“The winners of the war are the Palestinian nation and resistance. So far, the United States and the Zionist regime have been the main losers of this war.”
Amir-Abdollahian said the ongoing ceasefire in Gaza has provided a political opportunity for the region to stay away from the war.
“The U.S. must choose between the continuations of this situation as well as the region’s separation from the war, and the continuation of a worse situation,” he said.
The top Iranian diplomat also said the U.S. has sent several messages to Iran, asking the country to exercise restraint.
Washington, he added, also said that it does not seek an expansion of the war and asked Tehran to recommend resistance groups in Iraq, Syria and Yemen not to act against American and Israeli bases.
“There are groups today in Iraq and Syria that act against the U.S. upon their own decision. They do not get our permission. They are not under Iran’s command. We have clearly said that Iran does not have any proxy group or organization in the region,” Amir-Abdollahian said.
“We told all actors and the U.S.