'Israel's aggressive actions is forcing Iran to take legitimate steps': Turkey's FM

Turkey on Saturday said that Israel’s action in Gaza and Lebanon is pushing Iran to take “legitimate steps”.

“Israel’s aggressive stance is forcing Iran to take legitimate steps,” Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said at a joint press conference in Istanbul with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “constantly opening new fronts in the region” and “trying to draw Iran into this war,” he said.

“The risk of war spreading to the entire region should not be underestimated.”

Israel is reportedly ready to launch its retaliatory attack against Israel in response to Tehran’s ballistic missile aggression. Tel Aviv has kept the US apprised of its plan to attack Iran and has narrowed down targets across the country.

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Iran’s foreign minister has anyone who knows about Israel’s plan is “accountable”. Abbas Araghchi said, “Anybody with knowledge or understanding of ‘how and when Israel was going to attack Iran’, and/or providing the means and backing for such folly, should logically be held accountable for any possible causality.”

Netanyahu’s residence targetted 

Israel said a drone targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence on Saturday, as Hezbollah launched a barrage of projectiles into Israel from its northern neighbour Lebanon.

However, the prime minister and his wife were not present in Caesarea at the time of the attack nor were there any casualties reported.

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Meanwhile, Lebanese authorities said two people were killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday in Jounieh, north of Beirut, the first attack on the area since Hezbollah and Israel started trading fire last year.

The strike occurred on the highway connecting Beirut to northern Lebanon, prompting a large deployment of troops and security forces, said an AFP correspondent in the area.

With inputs from AFP