SOARING tensions across the Middle East are part of Washington’s aggression towards Tehran, Iranian communists warned on Saturday.

A statement from the Tudeh Party of Iran stressed the sharp escalation of conflicts that could “further destabilise the safety and security of the region” since US President Donald Trump’s visit to the Arab summit in Saudi Arabia last month.

Since then Qatar has been blockaded, new Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Sultan has vowed to “take the fight to Iran” and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has voiced support for regime change.

The statement highlighted the three recent US air strikes on “paramilitary forces backed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran” in Syria’s south-eastern deserts.

It said Mr Trump had reneged on his promise to end US foreign interventions and stabilise the region in co-operation with Russia.

The Tudeh Party said US agression was also a threat to those in Iran who rejected the “theocratic regime.”

And it called on “progressive and patriotic forces” to oppose US intervention and back-room deals and unite “in defence of peace in the Middle East and the national sovereignty of Iran.”

Iran’s Quds Force, the IRGC-backed Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) and Iranian ally Hezbollah of Lebanon are all fighting alongside Syrian troops.

And it was the IRGC — not President Hassan Rouhani — which ordered this week’s ballistic missile attack on Isis targets in Syria in revenge for the death cult’s attacks in Tehran.

PMU forces recently took control of the border with Syria south of where US and British special forces are operating illegally inside the country.

On Friday, US presidential envoy to the Operation Inherent Resolve coalition Brett McGurk said Washington would not “allow Iran to jeopardise our gains and fuel instability in Isis’s wake, by placing foreign proxies anywhere near the border regions with Jordan and Israel.”

But on Saturday coalition spokesman Colonel Ryan Dillon said: “If others want to fight Isis and defeat them, then we absolutely have no problem with that.”

The same day CIA director Mike Pompeo called Iran the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism.

“Today, we find it with enormous influence, influence that far outstrips where it was six or seven years ago,” he said. “Iran is everywhere throughout the Middle East.”