Israel Trying to Balkanize Middle East

A commentator and journalist tells Press TV that Israeli occupation attacks against regional countries are part of the Tel Aviv regime’s attempts to rupture the Middle East.

Syed Mohsin Abbas was speaking on The Debate program from Tehran on Saturday following the Israeli regime’s bombing of positions apparently belonging to Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).

The PMU said it held the United States and Israel responsible for the bombing.

The Israeli occupation regime has also attacked positions belonging to the Syrian military and its allies, which have been fighting against foreign-sponsored militancy and terrorism.

In attacking Iraq, Tel Aviv claimed it had stricken a “weapons depot” in an attempt to “stop Iran influence.”

The Islamic Republic has been assisting both Iraq and Syria’s counter-terrorism activities by providing them with advisory military support but has rejected allegations maintaining any forces in either of the Arab countries.

Abbas called Tel Aviv effectively a “licensed rogue” regime, “which actually goes out and does any kind of indiscriminate bombing that it wants.”

He identified the attacks on Iraq as Tel Aviv’s attempt “to continue the destabilization… the balkanization of the Middle East.”

 “It (Israel) has a complete sanction from the US primarily, which would veto any vote against Israel’s actions in the United Nations,” he added.

Israel is the only party in the Middle East to be in possession of nuclear arms and keeps attacking countries that do not have such weapons at their disposal, he said. The regime is also”armed to the teeth by the courtesy of the Western imperialist forces — America, Britain and etc. — and yet it says it’s actually the victim,” the expert noted.

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