Iran will not go to war directly with Israel unless Israel or the United States attack it. Reuters writes about this with reference to sources.
According to three high-ranking interlocutors of the publication, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, gave a “clear signal” to the head of the radical Hamas group, recognized as a terrorist by the United States and the EU, Ismail Haniyeh, during their meeting earlier of November. . “They did not warn us about his attack on Israel on October 7, and we will not go to war in his name,” the source was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Khamenei said Iran, a longtime supporter of Hamas, would continue to provide the group with “political and moral support” but would not intervene directly, Iranian and Hamas officials familiar with the talks said.
According to six sources close to Tehran, Iran “will not intervene directly in the conflict unless it itself is attacked by Israel or the United States.”
Israeli security sources told Reuters that Israel was not seeking to expand the fighting but was prepared to fight on new fronts if necessary to defend itself. At the same time, the Lebanese radical group Hezbollah is considered the most serious threat there.
For Hezbollah, Hamas’s attack on Israel was also a surprise, Reuters writes, citing three sources close to the Lebanese group. According to them, Hezbollah members in the border villages were not even in a state of combat readiness and had to be urgently awakened.
