Pro-government demonstrators wave national flags, flags of Lebanon's Hezbollah, and a placard with Persian script reading, ''The Kohgiluyeh Lur hunter of F-35,'' in front of a portrait of Iran's new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, during the funeral ceremony for Majid Khademi, head of Iran's IRGC Intelligence Organization, in Tehran, Iran, on April 8, 2026. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto via AFP)
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned on Wednesday that any attack on Beirut would trigger a “full-scale resumption” of the Middle East war, as Israel pressed its campaign against Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
Iran has repeatedly insisted that any deal to end the wider Middle East war — which its ally Hezbollah joined on March 2 — must also halt the fighting in Lebanon.
“The fate of the war between Iran and the Zionists (Israel) and Americans is inseparable from the fate of the battle in Lebanon, and these two fronts have been intertwined since day one,” Iranian news agencies quoted Araghchi as telling Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen TV.
“Any attack on Beirut will have grave consequences and will lead to a full-scale resumption of the war,” he continued, adding Iran’s “armed forces are ready to strike Israel if it attacks Beirut”.
