Tehran, Sep 18 (EFE).- Iran’s government has said that the deadly simultaneous explosions of pagers across Lebanon was a terrorist act and “mass murder.”
Paramedics transport an injured person to the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) after an incident involving Hezbollah members’ pagers in Beirut, Lebanon, 17 September 2024. EFE/EPA/WAEL HAMZEH
Tuesday’s unprecedented attack that targeted Hezbollah, which along with Iran blames Israel for the blasts, killed at least nine people and wounded almost 3,000.
The “terrorist operations in Lebanon were carried out as a continuation of the combined operations of the Zionist regime [Israeli government] and their mercenary agents, and are contrary to all moral and humanitarian principles, international law, especially international humanitarian law, and deserve international criminal prosecution, trial and punishment,” said Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Nasser Kanaani in a statement issued late Tuesday night.
The diplomat described the attack as “mass murder.”
Kanaani called on the international community to act quickly to “confront the impunity of the Zionist criminal authorities” of Israel.
Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani was injured in the blasts and his wife has said that his “treatment is going well.”
Israel has remained silent amid the accusations from Hezbollah, Tehran and others.
Iran is one of the main allies of Hezbollah, a group it has supported financially and with weapons since the 1980s.
Tehran also leads the so-called Axis of Resistance, an informal anti-Israel alliance that includes Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis. EFE
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