{"id":47576,"date":"2024-02-11T16:17:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T06:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=47576"},"modified":"2024-02-11T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T06:17:39","slug":"iran-fm-says-israel-offensive-on-lebanon-would-spell-end-of-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=47576","title":{"rendered":"Iran FM says Israel offensive on Lebanon would &#8216;spell end&#8217; of Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iran&#8217;s top diplomat warned on Saturday that a full-blown attack on Lebanon would &#8220;spell the end&#8221; of Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu during a Beirut trip, as cross-border tensions surge over the Gaza war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces and Lebanon&#8217;s powerful Hezbollah group, a Hamas ally, have traded near-daily fire following the outbreak of war on October 7 between Israel and the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any move by the Zionist regime (Israel) for a large-scale attack on Lebanon will spell the end of Netanyahu,&#8221; Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told reporters in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>Amir-Abdollahian, whose country backs a number of armed groups in the region including Hezbollah and Palestinian factions including Hamas, was on his third visit to Beirut in over four months of hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our assessment is that the Zionist regime will never be able to fight on two fronts,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Netanyahu is struggling to get out of the Gaza quagmire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s top diplomat warned on Saturday that a full-blown attack on Lebanon would &#8220;spell the end&#8221; of Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu during a Beirut trip, as cross-border tensions surge over the Gaza war. Israeli forces and Lebanon&#8217;s powerful Hezbollah group, a Hamas ally, have traded near-daily fire following the outbreak of war on October 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[442],"class_list":["post-47576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-iran-fm-says-israel-offensive-on-lebanon-would-spell-end-of-netanyahu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}