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Iran accuses US of involvement in Israeli strike on its territory Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi hold a joint press conference after their meeting at Representative Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Istanbul, Turkiye.

The United States played a role in Saturday’s Israeli strikes on Iran, a top official in Tehran said.

“The Americans clearly participated in the attack,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a televised interview on Sunday.

 “The Americans provided an air corridor for the Zionist air force, and the defensive equipment they sent to them is considered a form of involvement in the recent operations,” he added, saying that US participation is “completely clear.”

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On the international backlash to Israel’s attack, he said: “The level of global condemnation for this aggressive act by the Zionist entity was very high.”

President Joe Biden, for his part, was at least candid enough to disclose some uncertainty. “I hope this is the end,” he said yesterday.

That might be the hope in the giant echo chamber that is Washington, but it is only in that alternate reality that the war has ended.

Israeli on Saturday said it had carried out a four-hour assault on Iran, with Tehran stating that it successfully repelled “attempts by the Zionist entity to attack some points in Tehran and across the country.”

The death from an Israeli airstrike on an area in southern Lebanon has risen to 10, among them two children, the Lebanese Health Ministry and state-media said on Saturday.

Those killed were mostly Syrian nationals, the ministry said.

The National News Agency said the raid hit a brick mill at the outskirts of the northern town of Al-Kafour in the Natabtiyeh districy.

Earlier reports from the area said it was a residential building.

It said among the dead was the caretaker of the mill who is a Syrian national and his whole family.

Five others were injured in the Israeli strike, the ministry said in a statement, adding that some are in critical condition.

The Israeli army said the air force had attacked a Hezbollah militia weapons depot in the Nabataea area.

The military also struck with artillery to eliminate a threat in other areas of southern Lebanon, the army said.

The reports that civilians were injured as a result of the strike is under review, the Israeli army said.

On Friday, at least one person was killed and another wounded in an Israeli strike that hit the village of Aitaroun in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Health Ministry said.

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Meanwhile, the Lebanese pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement said that one of its fighters was killed, but did not say when or where.

The Israeli army said the place it hit in the Aitaroun area was a military structure in which Hezbollah terrorists were operating.

Hezbollah in Lebanon and Israel have been engaged in daily firefights since the Gaza war began in October.

More than 120 civilians have been killed, most of them on the Lebanese side.

(dpa/NAN)