Israel's aggressive hands must be cut off from region

Speaking at the legislature on Tuesday, Mohammad-Bagher Qalibaf said the regime has resorted to the approach under its “criminal prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu].”

“For them, there is no difference between Tehran, Beirut, Doha, Islamabad, Khartoum, and Istanbul,” he said.

The comments came following the regime’s assassination of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah’s senior commander, Haytham Ali Tabatabai, and four other members of the group in an airstrike against Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Qalibaf emphasized that Hezbollah remained “strong and unwavering,” moving steadily forward, despite Tel Aviv’s attempts to destabilize the region.

The top legislator described the entity as an enemy “devoid of human values” and not considering itself bound by any rules or agreements.

In such circumstances, only “courage and power” could deter the adversary, he said, underlining that forbidding the regime from continuing its criminal path was essential to the restoration of regional stability.

Qalibaf expressed certainty that the region’s resistance movements would face the entity’s approach of unabated atrocity with a coordinated and prudent response in due course.

“This situation cannot continue. Patience has its limits,” he said, stressing that the resistance “calculates carefully but acts decisively… it does not seek war, but it fights well.”

The official also condemned global powers and international organizations for bearing witness to the regime’s "brutality," yet "lacking the will to stop it."

His remarks echoed those made by Mohsen Rezaei, a former chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), who underlined during a ceremony on Monday that the regime’s targeted killings of resistance commanders were accelerating its own demise.