Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has said Iran does not want Palestine-Israel crisis to “spread out”, Reuters reports.

“We don’t want this war to spread out,” Amirabdollahian said during an appearance on CNN. He dismissed claims directly connecting Iran to the attacks, calling them “baseless.”

“We always had political media and international support for Palestine. We have never denied this,” he said.

“This is the truth, but in relation to this operation called the Al Aqsa Storm, there was no connection to that data between Iran and this Hamas operation, not my government nor part of my country.”

Amirabdollahian said linking Iran to any attack in the region, if US interests are targeted, without providing proof, is “totally wrong.”

People in the region were angry, he said, and “they are not receiving orders from us. They act according to their own interest. Also, what happened, what was carried out by Hamas, it was totally Palestinian.”

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