A former chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned regional countries, including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Iraq, that they risked facing Israeli aggression if the countries in the region failed to form a “military coalition” against the Zionist entity.
Mohsen Rezaei made the remarks in a post on X, former Twitter, on Saturday, advising that an extraordinary Islamic-Arab summit, which is slated to take place in the Qatari capital Doha on Sunday, take the prospect of such aggression into serious consideration.
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“If the summit fails to take practical action in response to the Zionist regime’s aggression against five Muslim countries and its genocide in Gaza, then Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Iraq too should expect the regime’s warplanes and bombs,” he wrote.
Rezaei, who is also on the Expediency Discernment Council that advises Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, was referring to the regime’s attacks on Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran, and most recently Qatar.
“Before the regime moves against each country in the region one by one, a military coalition must be formed to confront it,” he added.
His remarks came after Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz warned in an opinion piece that following the recent airstrikes on Qatar, which targeted the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ leadership in the Persian Gulf country, there was a possibility that the regime could open a new front against Turkey.
It, however, described the action as one that could carry “catastrophic” consequences, and also cited analysts as saying that any confrontation with Ankara would be far more dangerous than the strikes on Doha.
In the same context, the Times of Israel, another daily, reported that Tel Aviv had previously postponed carrying out a similar operation on the Turkish soil due to “NATO considerations,” instead choosing Qatar as the alternative target.
Also on Saturday, Iran’s top security official Ali Larijani delivered a warning similar to that of the former commander, saying Muslim countries had to form a joint operations headquarters to stop the"madness" of the Israeli regime against the Palestinian people.
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The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) said such a decision would be enough to worry the master of this entity, in an apparent reference to US President Donald Trump.
Larijani added that the move would force the US president to promptly shift his directives to the Israeli regime under the pretext of"bringing world peace" and the "Nobel Prize!"
