Don’t get involved, US general warns Iran after Hizbollah strikes

The United States’ top general on Monday warned Iran not to get involved in the crisis in Israel and said he did not want the conflict to broaden, as Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired a salvo of rockets into northern Israel.

The White House on Monday said that Iran was complicit in Hamas’s attack on Israel, even though the US has no intelligence or evidence that points to Iran’s direct participation.

Asked what his message for Iran was, General Charles Q Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: “Not to get involved.”

Israeli shelling on Lebanon killed at least three Hezbollah militants on Monday, and Israel said one of its officers was killed during an earlier cross-border raid claimed by Palestinians in Lebanon.

The death toll from the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas has reached at least 900, with dozens more taken hostage. More than 600 people have been killed in Gaza, Palestinian authorities said.

Source » telegraph.co.uk