Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz confirmed on Monday that Iran intends to attack the Jewish state, with Tehran delivering the message indirectly via Hungary.
“Iran has informed us that it intends to attack Israel,” Katz said, adding that “the world should exact a price from Iran for any aggressive action it carries out.”
Acting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri told his Hungarian counterpart, Péter Szijjártó, that Iran is going to attack Israel. Szijjártó relayed the message to Katz.
“In a telephone conversation with the foreign ministers of Slovenia and Hungary, I emphasized that the lack of reaction of the United Nations Security Council and the European Union to the crimes of the Zionist regime, including the mass killing of children and women, the genocide in Gaza and the assassination of Palestinian figures in other countries is one of the most important factors of instability in the area,” Bagheri tweeted on Monday.
The regime in Tehran is making a diplomatic push ahead of its pledged joint attack, along with its regional terror proxies, on Israel, in response to the assassination last week of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital. Jerusalem has not taken responsibility for the assassination, although Iran and Hamas immediately blamed Israel.
Iran will make its case for the attack and attempt to gather diplomatic support on Wednesday in an emergency meeting with foreign ministers from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
