Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned that heavy consequences will await Israel in case the regime launches attack against Lebanon.

The new Iranian president issued the warning in a phone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.

Pezeshkian expressed his grave concern over the escalation of tensions in Lebanon’s southern border with the occupied Israeli territories.

Tensions have been running high between Israel and the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah following an alleged rocket attack that killed 12 people and injured 40 others in the town of the Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday.

While Israel blamed Hezbollah for the attack, the Islamic Resistance categorically denied all false allegations in this regard.

Since the incident, there have been continued exchanges of fire across the border, but they have seemed to fall within the bounds of the routine tit-for-tat of the past ten months.

Earlier on Monday, the Israeli regime carried out a fresh bout of strikes against Lebanon under the pretext of hitting back against Hezbollah. 

Fears linger in the region that Israel might use the Saturday strike as a pretext to launch a full-scale offensive on Lebanon.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Pezeshkian expressed Iran’s readiness to improve relations with France based on the principles of honesty and confidence-building.

Macron, for his part, expressed hope that Iran will promote its relations with France and other European countries during Pezeshkian’s tenure.