[News] Tehran warns of false-flag operations, says Israel ‘undoubtedly’ seeking to widen war

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Tehran warns of false-flag operations, says Israel ‘undoubtedly’ seeking to
widen war
Presstv
March 3, 2026
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*Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says the Israeli regime is deliberately
attempting to expand the scope of the current Israeli-American-initiated
war on Iran and drag the region into a broader conflagration.*

Speaking at a press conference held inside a school targeted by US-Israeli
assaults in Tehran on Tuesday, Esmaeil Baghaei said destabilizing the
region is “the project of the Zionist regime, and the United States was
also drawn onto this path.”

“The Zionist regime will undoubtedly seek to exploit the situation, expand
the scope of fire, and carry out acts of sabotage in regional countries in
order to transform the war it has initiated together with the United States
against Iran into a widespread regional conflict,” Baghaei said.

The remarks come amid reports of arrests of Mossad agents in Saudi Arabia
and Qatar as they were planning for bombings in the Arab countries.

Baghaei pointed out Tehran had previously cautioned that any new aggression
launched against the Islamic Republic would not remain limited to Iran.

“It had previously been emphasized that if a war were launched against
Iran, its scope would extend to the region. This warning was issued
responsibly and at the highest levels, and the martyred Leader of the
Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei had also made clear that
such a war would become a regional war,” the official said.

As opposed to such incendiary efforts, he asserted, the Islamic Republic’s
Armed Forces target only military objectives, including locations where
American military bases and garrisons are stationed.

The Iranian operations against those bases are "used to attack Iran, not
because Iran seeks regional insecurity,” he said.

Baghaei said the renewed aggression against Iran that began on Saturday did
not even spare the diplomatic police inside the country, warning that the
parties responsible for such aggression would not spare the regional states
either.

“The same individuals who targeted the diplomatic police will not hesitate
to design false flag operations to attack diplomatic premises in regional
countries in order to expand their war,” he remarked.

*‘Iran subject to genocide; enemies can’t change a nation’s dream’*

“What is happening in Iran is a genocide, meaning an attempt to destroy an
ethnicity: Targeting Iranian girls, Iran’s elites, and everything that
forms the foundation of a country is nothing but an effort to alter a
nation’s dream,” the official said.

The spokesman, though, stressed, “This dream will not change. They have
left us no path, but resistance.”

According to Iran’s Red Crescent Society, at least 787 people have been
killed throughout the aggression so far, including more than 160 children,
who perished during a US-Israeli attack against a school in the southern
province of Hormozgan.

Baghaei attributed the underway gruesome developments to the international
community’s inaction and indifference towards the crimes committed over the
past two and a half years.

He said the world witnessed genocide in the Gaza Strip and did not act, and
it saw crimes and aggression against neighboring countries and did not act.

*Diplomacy and call for UN action*

In response to a question about Tehran’s conditions for ending the war,
Baghaei said the Islamic Republic did not choose military confrontation in
the first place.

“This military aggression was not our choice. Our choice has always been
diplomacy. We made every effort until the very last moment to avoid
entering into a process of war, but the other side decided to wage war,” he
said.

The official stressed that ending the ongoing US-Israeli assaults is the
only way to end the war.

“The United Nations Security Council has a duty to act. Although past
experience has shown that in some cases it has failed to take action, under
the current circumstances there is no obstacle other than the will of the
international community,” he said.

“The international community must decide, before it is too late and the war
becomes prolonged and expansive, to ensure that the Security Council
fulfills its responsibilities and, by compelling the aggressing parties to
cease their aggression, restores security and stability to the region.”
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