Extracts: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says, he doesn't want war with Israel
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“We want to live in peace” Pezeshkian told reporters in New York City as the U.N. General Assembly gets underway “We don’t wish to be the cause of instability in the region"
Pezeshkian said Monday that Iran does not seek a wider war in the Middle East and that such a conflict would have no winners
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“We don’t want war ... We want to live in peace” Pezeshkian told reporters during a visit to New York for the U.N. General Assembly meeting “We don’t wish to be the cause of instability in the region"
Pezeshkian called for dialogue to resolve the volatile situation in the Middle East and blamed Israel for stoking tensions and instigating conflict, citing assassinations in Tehran and elsewhere that Pezeshkian said, Israel had carried out
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“We know more than anyone else that if a larger war were to erupt in the Middle East, it will not benefit anyone throughout the world. It is Israel that seeks to create this wider conflict” Pezeshkian said
U.S. officials fear the prospect of an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group backed by Iran
Israeli airstrikes killed more than 180 people and wounded almost 730 on Monday, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said, a dramatic expansion of Israel’s aerial attack
