Iran warns US not to fall into Israel's trap and stay away

TEHRAN (Xinhua) - A senior Iranian official said that Iran had warned the United States against getting 'dragged into the trap' laid by Israel for Washington by attacking Iran's consulate in Syria.

Mohammad Jamshidi, the Iranian president's deputy chief of staff for political affairs, made the remarks in a post on social media platform X while elaborating on a "written message" sent by Iran to the US government.

The message was sent after Israel's Monday attack on the Iranian consulate building in the Syrian capital Damascus, which killed seven Iranians, including two veteran commanders of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

He said that in the message, Iran had warned the 'US leadership not to get dragged in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trap for the United States', and advised Washington to 'stay away', so 'you won't get hurt.'

Jamshidi said in response to the message, the United States had asked Iran not to target American facilities.

In a message on his website on Tuesday in reaction to the attack, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had vowed that the country's 'brave men' would inflict a regret-inducing punishment on Israel for its deadly 'criminal' attack on the building of the Iranian consulate.