Tehran: An Iranian minister has vowed to punish Israel over the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last month.
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi in a telephone call with his Italian counterpart, Antonio Tajani on Sunday night said that "Iran's reaction to Israeli terrorist attack in Tehran is definitive and will be measured and calculated", news outlet IRNA reported.
"We do not fear escalation, yet do not seek it-unlike Israel", Araghchi wrote on his X social media post, detailing his conversation with Tajani.
Tajani also expressed concern over the spread of insecurity in the region and urged all parties to practice self-restraint and Iran to help in reducing tensions, the country's state media reported.
On August 25 morning, Israel Defence Forces said that the Iran-backed group Hezbollah had fired more than 200 rockets and drones at Israel's northern border claiming retaliation for the assassination of its senior commander Fuad Shukr in the Lebanese capital Beirut.
This prompted a retaliation from Israel who bombed sites across South Lebanon. Israel said it took out some 1,000 Hezbollah rocket launchers in a coordinated sortie of 100 Israeli fighter jets early Sunday to thwart much of the planned assault, as per a report in the Times of Israel.
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