Iran dismisses report on receiving Israeli message

The Islamic republic dismissed report on receiving a message from Israel saying it does not want an escalation of tensions with Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah group, semi-official Fars news agency reported on Monday.

Iran has not received any official or unofficial message from Israel, said Marzieh Afkham, spokeswoman for the foreign ministry.

She was referring to a report by the Times of Israel last week, which claimed that Tel Aviv has sent soothing messages to Tehran and Hezbollah via Russia to stress that it is uninterested in an escalating conflict in the region.

Earlier this month, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps confirmed the killing of general Mohammad-Ali Allahdadi in a reported Israeli airstrike on the Golan Heights in Syria that also killed six members of the Lebanese Hezbollah.

In response, Hezbollah launched a deadly missile attack against Israeli soldiers near the Israeli-Lebanese border on Wednesday. Enditem