Tehran is drawing new borders in the Middle East, MP Walid Jumblat said Thurday, adding that Israel's recent strike on a Hezbollah convoy in Syria may have been aimed at disrupting U.S.-Iranian nuclear talks.
“The Qunaitra attack is a kind of advanced demarcation line between Iran and Israel and also has some sort of election calculations by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” Jumblatt told local newspaper As-Safir.
An Israeli helicopter attack in Qunaitra in Syria’s Golan Heights Sunday killed six Hezbollah members and an Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander.
A Lebanese security source told The Daily Star that two Syrian fighters affiliated to Hezbollah were also killed in the strike.
Jumblatt, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, also said the Qunaitra assault was likely an Israeli attempt to disrupt nuclear negotiations between Washington and Tehran.
He said developments in Yemen “are part of the regional conflict, where Tehran is drawing new borders in the region.”
The PSP chief also opined that U.S.-Iranian negotiations will likely end in a nuclear deal, “after which talks would begin on drawing Iran’s influence map in the region.”
