Iran warns Biden not to tie his fate to Netanyahu

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahan said in an interview with US business news channel CNBC that US support for the occupation forces is a "source of instability" in West Asia. "The United States must tie its fate to the fate of Netanyahu, not Mr. [Joe] Biden," he said in an interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

"Biden and the White House's extensive cooperation with extremists like Netanyahu in Israel is at the heart of security in the region."

Israel launched a genocidal attack on the Gaza Strip on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance group launched a historic operation against the occupation group Hamas to escalate violence against the Palestinian people. But more than 100 days after the attack, the regime in Tel Aviv has failed to achieve its goals in Gaza. Even though at least 24,285 Palestinians (mostly women and children) were killed and 61,154 were injured.

The United States is complicit in the massacre in Gaza because it provides arms and intelligence support to Israel and has blocked a UN resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Palestinian territories. Yemeni forces have cooperated with Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip to attack Red Sea ships whose owners have ties to Israel or ships traveling to and from ports in the occupied territories.

Consequently, the United States formed a military alliance in the Red Sea and attacked Yemen, threatening maritime navigation, a strategic waterway. "Yemen and other regional countries will not accept orders from Tehran."

Amir Abdullarian said Iran wants the United States to end the war in Gaza, stressing that security in the Red Sea is important to the Islamic Republic.

"The people of Yemen and other countries in the region who protect the Palestinian people act according to their experience and interests and do not accept any orders or instructions from us," he added. "If we have security around us, it won't help us," he said, stressing the importance of maritime security for Iran, an oil exporter.

"We believe that the genocide in Israel and Gaza is at the root of all attempts to destabilize the region," he said.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched a missile attack on an Israeli intelligence base in Iraq's Kurdistan region this morning, and anti-Iranian terrorist groups centered on ISIS carried out a joint operation in northwestern Syria. Amir Abdollahan said the attack was in line with the "war on terrorism and self-defense".

"We have no reservations about protecting our national interests together with other countries," he added.