Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, attending the U.N. General Assembly gathering, criticized the U.S. government for sending weapons to Israel.

Israel wants to drag the Middle East into a full-blown war by provoking Iran to join the nearly year-old conflict between Israel and Tehran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iranian President said on Monday,

We want to live in peace,” Masoud Pezeshkian told reporters in New York City as the United Nation General Assembly gets underway. “We don’t wish to be the cause of instability in the region."

Iran is prepared to de-escalate tensions with Israel as long as it sees the same level of commitment on the other side, President Masoud Pezeshkian said.

Iran’s president accused Israel on Monday of seeking a wider war in the Middle East and laying “traps” to lead his country into a wider conflict. Masoud Pezeshkian told about two dozen media representatives that Iran doesn’t want to see the current war in Gaza and airstrikes across the Israeli-Lebanon border expanded.