Iran will respond firmly if US becomes directly involved in Israeli strikes, says UN ambassador

Iran said it had conveyed to Washington that it will respond firmly to the United States if it becomes directly involved in Israel’s military campaign, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva said on Wednesday.

Ali Bahreini, the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations in Geneva, told reporters that he saw the U.S. as “complicit in what Israel is doing.”

Israel launched its