Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Israeli regime is trying to expand war across the region as means of trying to get out of the quagmire it is facing in the Gaza Strip, where the regime has been waging a genocidal war for more than 11 months.

According to The Iran Project, “The fact is that the Israeli regime has been caught in a quagmire in Gaza,” the top diplomat said in an interview.

“Despite having sought to destroy [the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement] Hamas with an army that has been armed to the teeth with the most advanced weapons, it has not been able to achieve its goal after a year,” he added.

Araghchi then pointed to the escalation of the regime’s aggression across the region, including against the occupied West Bank and Lebanon, following the launch of the Gaza war.

He cited the instance of the regime’s detonation of thousands of booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkie radios that killed at least 39 people and wounded 3,000 others across Lebanon over Tuesday and Wednesday.