TEHRAN – Iran has officially rejected press reports that it received a message from the United States regarding the situation in the Gaza Strip. 

Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saied Iravani has reacted to these reports, saying they do not hold water. 

“Such news is basically untrue and is denied,” Iravani told IRIB News. 

Earlier, press reports suggested that Iravani received a four-point message from the U.S. regarding the escalating tensions in Palestine. The message, the reports said, included a U.S. request from Iran to work toward de-escalating the situation. It also included a warning to Iran that if it joined the Israel-Gaza war, the U.S. would follow suit, according to the reports. 

Israel started a brutal aggression against the Gaza Strip earlier this month following an attack by Palestinian resistance groups on a number of Israeli military sites. In the latest brutal attack, Israel bombarded the last remaining Christian hospital in the besieged Strip, killing more than 500 civilians, mostly women and children who were receiving treatment for injuries sustained during previous Israeli bombardments. 

The hospital attack shocked the world, eliciting strong condemnation from many countries and international institutions. 

The Iranian government has strongly condemned the airstrike on the hospital its victims are mostly women and children.

With this crime, the Iranian government said, the Zionist regime accelerated its demise at the hands of Palestinians and Muslims in the region.

“The crime of the occupying Zionist regime in the brutal bombing of the Maamdani hospital in oppressed Gaza shocked the world and filled the conscience of every free person with pain and anger,” the Iranian government said in a statement.

“With this crime, the Zionist regime brought its own end at the hands of the Muslim people of Palestine and the region, and this crime definitely will not go unanswered,” the statement said.