Iran: New $8.7bn US military aid to Israel ‘reward for killers’
Iran has denounced the United States’ recent military aid package to Israel, saying it is simply a “reward” to the regime employed by Washington to kill innocent people in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani made the remarks on Friday, a day after Israel’s war ministry said it had secured an $8.7 billion aid package from the US to support its ongoing military offensives across the region.
“These sums are nothing but an employer’s reward for killers and murderers,” he said in an X post.
Speaking on Thursday, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said Washington has not changed and will not change its commitment to help Israel “protect” itself.
Kan’ani said, “It is shameful that the US regards the killing of about 42,000 people in 11 months in Palestine and more than 1,500 people in four days in Lebanon as self-defense.”
“The world has no doubts that the US regime is a first-degree partner in the war crimes of the Israeli regime in the genocide of Palestinians and the ongoing atrocities against the Lebanese nation,” he added.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a genocidal war against Gaza, which has so far killed 41,534 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 96,092 others.
Over the same period, the Tel Aviv regime has conducted aerial assaults across Lebanon in violation of the country’s sovereignty, killing 1,540 people and wounding 5,410 others.
On Monday, the occupation’s military escalated its bloody bombing campaign on Lebanon and announced that it is mulling a ground invasion.
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