TEHRAN - Iran has strongly advised the Western countries against continuing to back Tel Aviv’s crimes against Palestinians, saying it is like betting on the “losing horse” because the “terrorist gang” ruling Israel is facing “strategic impasse” to ensure the regime’s “survival”.

“Supporting the Zionist regime towards continuation of its crimes against Palestinians amounts to betting on the losing and hapless horse in addition to [carrying] legal and international responsibility,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani wrote in a post on X on Wednesday, Press TV reported.

The official cited the mounting crises afflicting the regime as it is insisting on its genocidal war against the Palestinians in the Gaza the Gaza Strip which started in October last year.

He enumerated the resignations that had plagued the regime’s ranks as well as the recurrent protests and a general strike that have taken place by those demanding an end to the war that could enable the return of those who remain captive in Gaza.

The number of such incidents has been growing at an “unprecedented speed” following 11 months of “all-out and madcap” war on Gaza, Kanaani said.

“Widening rift within the Zionist regime’s society and ranks is now [clearly] visible to the eyes of the world in a way that some Zionist rulers and experts openly talk about the threat of its disintegration,” he added.

“The ‘terrorist gang ruling Tel Aviv’ is facing strategic agitation and impasse in its efforts to protect and ensure continuation of the regime’s survival,” the spokesman asserted.

He, meanwhile, described the regime’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a war criminal, whose further stay in power would expedite the regime’s internal and international decline.