US involvement will turn entire region into hell: Iran

Iran's deputy foreign minister Saeed Khatibzadeh has said the US joining Israeli strikes would cause "hell for the whole region", reports BBC.

This is "not America's war" and if US President Donald Trump does get involved, he will always be remembered as "a president who entered a war he doesn't belong in", Saeed said.

Saeed Khatibzadeh believes that US involvement will make the conflict more complicated and create a long-lasting bloody situation.

He said US involvement would turn the conflict into a "quagmire", continue aggression and delay an end to the "brutal atrocities".

His comments came after the Soroka hospital in southern Israel was hit during an Iranian missile attack. Israel's Ministry of Health said 71 people were injured during the attack on the Soroka Medical Centre, according to Iranian state media report.