Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that Israel should “stop killing innocent people”, and that its actions in West Asia were backed by the United States and the European Union.

Pezeshkian was speaking to a Russian state TV reporter on the sidelines of an international meeting in Turkmenistan.

An Israeli strike late on Thursday in the heart of Beirut killed 22 people and injured more than 100, Lebanese authorities said.

Reuters report