Jordan will not be a battlefield for Iran or Israel, foreign minister warns

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Jordan will not be a battlefield for Iran or *******, foreign minister warns

CAIRO (Reuters) – Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Saturday that the kingdom would not be a battlefield for Iran or *******, as the region braces for a possible new wave of attacks by Tehran and its allies following last week’s ******** of senior members of militant groups ****** and Hezbollah.

“We will not be a battlefield for Iran or *******. We informed the Iranians and the Israelis that we will not allow anyone to violate our airspace and risk the safety of our citizens,” the Jordanian foreign minister said in an interview with Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV.

“We will intercept anything that passes through our airspace or think that it constitutes a threat to us or our citizens.”

In April, Jordan, which ***** between Iran and *******, said it intercepted flying objects that entered its airspace as Tehran launched explosive drones and fired missiles at ******* in the first direct retaliatory ******* of its kind.

After that *******, which was launched in retaliation for a suspected ******** strike on Iran’s embassy compound in Syria, Jordanian, Iraqi and Turkish officials each said Iran had provided them with some early warning of its action.

Iran has repeatedly vowed to “punish” ******* since the ************** of

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, the political leader of Iran-backed ************ Islamist group ******, in Tehran on July 31. Iran and ****** blamed ******* for the ********.

******* has not claimed or denied responsibility for the ********, which has fuelled concerns that the war between ******* and ****** in the Gaza Strip could spill into a wider Middle East conflict.

Those concerns have also been stoked by the ******** of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fuad Shukr, in an ******** strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs hours before the ************** of Haniyeh.

(Reporting by Jaidaa Taha and Enas al Ashry; Editing by Alex Richardson)

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