European countries and the United States don’t want to see peace and tranquility in the Middle East, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said, APA reports citing TASS.
"European countries and the United States don’t want relations between countries [in the Middle East] to develop peacefully," his press service quoted him as saying at a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
According to the Iranian president, the situation in the region has escalated dramatically because Israel doesn’t recognize "any international legal and humanitarian standards."
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on October 4 that the United States and its allies are backing Israel in the conflicts in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon only to get their hands on the Middle East's resources.