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(Adnkronos) – Iran will respond to Israel’s “crimes” but does not want the conflict in the Middle East to escalate. This is what Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian assured, according to local media, to the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Sergei Shoigu, who has been visiting Tehran since yesterday. “Iran – he said – is absolutely not seeking to widen the scope of the crisis in the region, but this regime will certainly receive an answer for its crimes and its arrogance”.

“The criminal actions of this regime against the oppressed and defenseless people of Gaza – the Iranian president denounced – such as the assassination of the martyr Ismail Haniyeh in our country are a clear example of the violation of all international laws and norms”.

Iran is moving missile launchers and conducting military exercises. This is what US officials began observing over the weekend, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. It is a sign that Tehran is preparing for an attack in the coming days after Israel was accused of killing Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday.

Russia has begun delivering advanced air defense equipment and radar to Iran, which has requested them, Iranian officials said in a statement to the New York Times.

On the occasion of Sergei Shoigu’s visit to Tehran yesterday, Iranian media reported statements by President Masoud Pezashkian to the guest, expressing his country’s desire to expand relations with “strategic partner Russia”. “Russia is among the countries that have stood by the Iranian nation in difficult times,” the president said in a speech to the secretary of the Russian Security Council.

“Don’t overdo it.” This is the warning that officials of the US-led international coalition have given to Israel, in view of a response to a possible Iranian attack. This was reported by the Israeli TV Kan, according to which Tel Aviv was asked not to react too strongly. “Think carefully,” they warned. “The goal in the end is not to reach an all-out war.”

“There is no doubt that the aim of killing Ismail Haniyeh,” the Hamas political leader assassinated last Wednesday in Tehran, is “to prolong the war and broaden its scope,” Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview with the Russian agency RIA ahead of his visit to Russia scheduled for next week.

The killing of Haniyeh, he added, was a “cowardly act,” a “dangerous development in Israeli policy.” And “it will have a negative impact on the ongoing negotiations to end the aggression and for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.” “We call on our people to persevere, unity and patience,” the Palestinian leader insisted in the interview published on the Ria website.

Abbas calls on the Israeli “authorities” to “abandon their ambitions” and “stop their aggressive actions against our people and our cause”, to “respect international law and implement the Arab peace initiative”, and to insist on the demand for an “immediate and lasting ceasefire” and “withdrawal from the Gaza Strip”.

“There is great anticipation for the speech that Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah will give this afternoon,” a week after the assassination of military leader Fouad Shukr in the southern suburbs of Beirut. This was reported by the online site of the daily newspaper Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed, underlining that “there are many questions about the content of Nasrallah’s expected speech, especially since last week he raised the stakes against the Israeli occupation, but at the same time did not speak about the nature of the response to the Israeli aggression, while believing that we are facing a new and different phase compared to the last ten months.”

Four people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house in the southern Lebanese town of Maifadoun, Beirut media reported.

An Israeli woman was slightly injured after being stabbed in the back near a checkpoint in Jerusalem, the Israeli news site Ynet reported, adding that the suspected attacker was “neutralized.” According to Haaretz, the victim of the attack, which took place in the Tunnels Barrier area south of Jerusalem, is a 20-year-old.