THE United States must rein in Israel to avert a regional spillover of the war with Hamas, Iran’s top diplomat said today in Beirut, adding Tehran was seeking to safeguard Lebanon’s security.

Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian spoke as Hamas and Israel traded heavy fire for a seventh day, after hundreds of Hamas gunmen stormed across the border from Gaza into Israel on Saturday and killed 1,200 people.