UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran's new president accused Israel on Monday of seeking a wider war in the Middle East and laying "traps" to lead his country into a broader conflict.
Masoud Pezeshkian told about two dozen media representatives that Iran doesn't want to see the current war in Gaza and airstrikes across the Israeli-Lebanon border expanded.
"We don't want to fight," he said. "It's Israel that wants to drag everyone into war and destabilize the region. … They are dragging us to a point where we do not wish to go."
Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and reformer, defeated a hardliner in Iran's Jul...
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