Iran’s FM says attack on Beirut will mean ‘full resumption of war’

Published June 3, 2026 Updated June 3, 2026 11:57pm

In comments shared by Iran’s Tasnim news agency, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has made it clear that it “will not remain silent” in the face of an attack on Beirut, according to Al Jazeera.

“Any attack on Beirut will have grave consequences and lead to a full resumption of war,” Araghchi says in an interview with Lebanese news outlet Al Mayadeen.

“At the moment when Israel threatened to attack the suburbs of Beirut, we adopted a decisive stance and the Iranian armed forces were put on full alert for a counterattack.”

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