Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said Sunday that the US naval blockade against Iran and Washington’s support for Israel have turned American and Israeli bases and interests in the region into “legitimate targets,” Anadolu reports. In a post on the US social media company X following an Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs that killed at least two people and injured 11 others, Qalibaf accused the US of enabling the Israeli assaults. “The naval blockade against the Iranian nation and America’s green light today to the Zionist regime (Israel) turn American and regime bases and assets in the region into legitimate targets,” he wrote. “Our armed forces are always ready to respond,” he added. Qalibaf also accused the US and […]
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