Iran’s President: Israel must cease ‘crimes’ or face reaction

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Iranian leaders have urged Israel’s western allies to intervene to prevent any further escalations.  Iran’s Supreme Leader and President have made separate statements for the first time since Tehran launched missiles at Israel.  CGTN’s Ehsan Keivani has the latest from Tehran   #israel #tehran #middleeast

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00:00Well, the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had a meeting with the country's

00:06academic elite today and he said that very soon he would make comments with details about

00:14Beirut developments and Iran's missile attacks.

00:18The only thing he mentioned was that if the Middle East region wants to see and experience

00:24peace and stability, the foreign forces, namely the United States and the European countries

00:33should leave the region.

00:35President Pazishkian also made a comment before his trip to Qatar and he said that since the

00:42assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in July in Tehran, Iran exercised restraint for more

00:49than two months, but Iran was fed up and Tuesday's missile attack proved that Israel's

01:00Iron Dome was in fact more fragile than a glass jar.

01:08Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Wednesday that more than 90% of Iran's

01:14missiles hit their targets, adding that only military and security facilities were targeted

01:21by Iran and Tehran was very cautious not to hit any civilians.

01:26According to Foreign Minister Araghchi, Iran has informed Washington through the Swiss

01:31embassy in Tehran that the U.S. should not interfere and that any reaction from Israel

01:38or its supporters to Iran would trigger a harsh response from Iran.

01:46Araghchi also warned that any country that opens its airspace to Israel for any possible

01:53attacks against Iran will be considered as enemy by Iran.

01:56Meanwhile, the Foreign Minister said that he hoped within the next few days the situation

02:02returns to normalcy in the region.

02:05Assam, thank you for that.

02:06Our correspondent Assam Kavani in Iran.

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