Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko believes that if Israel and its allies start fighting with Iran, the Third World War may begin, Ednews reports citing Pravda.

"There may be a Third World War. It can start from there [the Middle East]. How: if they [Israel and the US] start a war with Iran. It is no longer Iran that is pulling them, but they are starting to pull the Iranians," Lukashenko said. - Do you have the facts that Iran is involved in this (the Hamas attack on Israeli territories - approx. TASS)? There are facts - put them on the table." The President noted that there are no such facts yet.

He also stressed that the use of weapons by the parties to the conflict, which are produced in a particular state, does not prove anything yet. "Yes, missiles like the Shahida, drones [of Iranian production] are flying. So are your drones and missiles flying in Ukraine? There is an arms trade," Lukashenko said. According to him, it's bad, but it's legal. "Maybe someone bought it through some hands, Hamas bought these rockets. And how many weapons were received there from Ukraine? They show the numbers of these American rifles," the president said.

According to him, "the confusion is serious." "If the Americans, having pulled up these strike air groups, aircraft carriers, start bombing from the Mediterranean, although I don't think they are mad, then some countries, especially Iran, will respond," Lukashenko believes. - And it's not a fact that the aircraft carrier will stand in the Mediterranean Sea. They will drown." According to him, there are a lot of things that say that "a serious conflict may break out, and maybe a war with the use of the most serious weapons." "No one knows how events will develop. Even those who started this mess there are Americans. They don't know what it will result in," the president said.