TEHRAN- Esmail Khatib, Iran’s Intelligence Minister, said on Saturday that the U.S. Secretary of State has barnstormed the region, urging the countries to help find solutions to the raging war between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

Speaking in a ceremony on Saturday, he noted that the U.S. has made its last-ditch attempts to forge a dignified truce for the Israeli regime. 

Alluding to the courageous actions of Hamas fighters against the Zionist regime, Khatib stressed that the surprising operation of the Al-Aqsa Storm, with all the desired points of an operational plan, was implemented and the enemy who claimed to be the greatest intelligence and military power in the region was deceived.

He described the move by the Hamas fighters as another slap in the face of the American officials, adding that “the important point of this operation is the defeat of American power in the region and the world. The hegemony of American power, which claimed military, intelligence, economic and political support for the Zionist regime and replaced it with its disgraceful withdrawal from the region, fell apart.”