Iran poses threat to Arab allies, ‘not only Israel,’ says Foreign Ministry spokesman

Iran poses a threat to both Israel and surrounding Arab countries, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein tells The Times of Israel while briefing reporters at the site of an Iranian missile attack in central Tel Aviv.

Asked for Israel’s reaction to Arab allies in the Gulf being attacked by Iran during the US-Israeli military campaign against the country, Marmorstein replies: “The fact that Arab countries and Arab allies were targeted just goes to show that the Iranian regime doesn’t only pose a threat to Israel.”

“It doesn’t only pose a threat to the region,” he continues. It “imposes a threat to the entire world.”

Asked if Israel is doing anything to assist Arab countries in the region that have been targeted by Iran to defend themselves, he responds, “We are doing everything possible to meet the objective of this operation, and this operation is working and happening hand in hand with our American friends,” and thanks US President Donald Trump “for his leadership, and working together to achieve these goals.”

Marmorstein emphasizes that the Iranian regime is deliberately targeting civilians in its retaliatory strikes, while stressing that Israel “has no quarrel with the Iranian people… our only quarrel is with the Iranian regime.”