Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters that a lot of people believe Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was aimed at provoking Iran and the US “to unleash a full-blown war in the entire region”.
Killing the Hezbollah leader was “not simply a political assassination. It’s very cynical as an act,” Lavrov told a news conference after addressing the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
“I think – well not even, I think, but a lot of people say – that Israel wants to create the grounds to drag the US directly into this, and so to create these grounds, it is trying to provoke Iran,” Lavrov said.
“The Iran leadership, I think, are behaving extremely responsibly. And this is necessary. This is something that we should take due note of,” he said.
