Israel causing 'total disaster

TURKISH Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan yesterday accused Israel of leading the Middle East towards “total disaster” by attacking Iran on June 13.

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“Israel is now leading the region to the brink of total disaster by attacking Iran, our neighbour,” he told a summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, which included Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi.

“There is no Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Yemeni or Iranian problem but there is clearly an Israeli problem,” Fidan said. He called for an end to the “unlimited aggression” against Iran.

Speaking after Fidan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Western leaders of providing “unconditional support” to Israel. He said Türkiye would not allow borders in the Middle East to be redrawn “in blood”.

Israel said yesterday that it had killed three Iranian commanders in its unprecedented bombing campaign across the Islamic republic, which Foreign Minister Gideon Saar claimed had already delayed Tehran’s presumed nuclear plans by two years. Israel’s military said its fighter jets successfully targeted top Iranian official Saeed Izadi, in charge of co-ordination with Palestinian militant group Hamas, in Qom south of Tehran and announced the deaths of two other commanders from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.