Iran threatens US and Israel with military action if Gaza is Invaded - raising concerns of widening conflict
by Melissa Koenig, New York Post, October 18, 2023
Iran’s foreign minister warned in an ominous tweet Wednesday morning that time is “running out” for Israel following an attack on a hospital in Gaza, as experts grow concerned about a potential third world war.
Hossein Amir-Abdallohian shared the chilling message after hundreds died Tuesday in a missile strike at a Gaza City hospital, which Israel has claimed was caused by a failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group.
“After the terrible crime of the Zionist regime in the bombing and massacre of more than 1,000 innocent women and children in the hospital, the time has come for the global unity of humanity against this fake regime more hated than ISIS and its killing machine,” Amir-Abdollahian tweeted.
“Time is OVER!”
The Iranian Embassy in Syria also tweeted “time is up” in both Hebrew and Arabic.
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The troubling message came just days after Amir-Abdollahian warned that a regional network of militias dubbed the “axis of resistance” would open “multiple fronts” against Israel if it continued to kill civilians in Gaza.
“Time is running out very fast,” Amir-Abdollahian said during a live televised interview with Iranian state television Monday night, according to the New York Times.
“If the war crimes against the Palestinians are not immediately stopped, other multiple fronts will open and this is inevitable.”
The latest warning came just hours after Hamas accused Israel of killing more than 500 people in an airstrike at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital — which Israel has denied, insisting it was the work of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group.
