According to the minister, it is wrong to link Iran without evidence to the attacks on Americans in the Middle East. “The people in the region are sensitive to developments in Palestine. They are angry. They do not receive orders from us, but act according to their own interests,” said Amir-Abdollahian. According to ‘CNN’, the minister also denied that Iran had anything to do with the attacks by the Islamist movement Hamas. The attacks on Israel were “exclusively Palestinian,” he said.
Since the start of the Gaza war, pro-Iranian rebels in Iraq and Syria have claimed a series of attacks on mostly American targets. The Americans responded by launching airstrikes to target infrastructure used by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in eastern Syria.