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Jordan Says Israel Pushing Middle East to Brink of Regional War

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi attends a press conference, in Amman, Jordan September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Alaa Al Sukhni
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi attends a press conference, in Amman, Jordan September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Alaa Al Sukhni
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Jordan Says Israel Pushing Middle East to Brink of Regional War

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi attends a press conference, in Amman, Jordan September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Alaa Al Sukhni
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi attends a press conference, in Amman, Jordan September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Alaa Al Sukhni

Israel is pushing the whole Middle East to the brink of regional conflict by maintaining a dangerous escalation on several fronts, Jordan's foreign minister said on Wednesday.

In remarks after an Islamic and Arab ministerial contact group meeting in Amman to lobby for a Gaza ceasefire, Ayman Safadi said peace would not prevail without a two-state solution.

Safadi has kept the foreign ministry portfolio in a new Jordanian cabinet named on Wednesday.

Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 41,272 Palestinians and wounded 95,551 since Oct. 7, the Palestinian enclave's health ministry said on Wednesday.

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Iran Accuses US, West of Supporting Pager Attack

Ambulances are surrounded by people at the entrance of the American University of Beirut Medical Center, on September 17, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Ambulances are surrounded by people at the entrance of the American University of Beirut Medical Center, on September 17, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
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Iran Accuses US, West of Supporting Pager Attack

Ambulances are surrounded by people at the entrance of the American University of Beirut Medical Center, on September 17, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Ambulances are surrounded by people at the entrance of the American University of Beirut Medical Center, on September 17, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday accused the US and its allies of backing the exploding pagers attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria.

“Using devices, made for welfare of human beings, as a tool for assassination and annihilation” of those who don’t hold the same views of the US, Israel and the West is “an indication of the collapse of humanity as well domination of savagery and barbarism,” the website of the president quoted him as saying.

“The incident once again showed that western nations and Americans fully support crime, killings and blind assassinations by the Zionist regime, in practice,” Pezeshkian added.

Iran is the chief supporter of Hezbollah. Many of the group’s fighters were killed and injured in Tuesday’s explosions.

Iran has already sent a group of Iranian medics to Lebanon to help victims of the explosions.

An American official said Israel briefed the United States on Tuesday after the attack, in which small amounts of explosive hidden in the pagers were detonated. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the information publicly.
The sophisticated apparently remote attack renewed fears that the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza could spill into a wider regional conflict.
Hamas' ally Hezbollah and Israeli forces have exchanged fire nearly daily since Oct. 8.