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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, used a unique people speech earlier this week to protect Iran’s missile strike against Israel, saying it was “legitimate and lawful” and that Tehran would “if needed” do it again.
As a result of a wave of numerous massive airstrikes and a land incursion by Israel into Lebanon, Khamenei, who spoke in both Farsi and Arabic during Friday prayers in central Tehran on October 4 said Iran and the regional proxies it supports wo n’t back down from Israel.
Khamenei said Iran wo n’t “procrastinate nor act hastily in order to carry out its duty” when confronting Israel, adding that the rocket barrage launched at Israel earlier this week was “legal and legitimate.”
As Israeli air attacks rocked the suburbs of Beirut, Khamenei delivered his address days after massive explosions sprang flames into the air. Big explosions occurred close to Beirut’s international airports, which borders Dahieh, a violent organization and political group that controls much of southwestern Lebanon.
Although the goal of the attacks was not immediately known by the Israeli army, some media and analysts speculated that Hashem Safiedine might be in charge of replacing Hezbollah as leader. Safieddine’s death during the cuts was not immediately known.
Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s former chief, was killed last week when Jewish airstrikes hit a Hezbollah command center, which is now a terrorist organization, while the European Union has blacklisted its political celebration, which has seats in the Palestinian parliament.
Israel’s intrusion into Lebanon, which was launched earlier this year, has sparked anxieties of a wider issue in the Middle East.
Tehran’s largest ballistic missile assault on Israel on October 1st, its largest so far, was a reprisal for the Jewish state’s campaign against Iran-backed Hezbollah, which gave rise to countermeasures from Israel and its principal ally, the United States.
Khamenei made his initial public sermon appearance on October 4th, 2004, for the first time in about five years. In response to the shooting of Revolutionary Guards Commander Qasem Soleimani in a U.S. hit in Baghdad, he led Friday Prayers for the last day in January 2020.
Mojata Najafi, a Paris-based researcher of Iranian politics, told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda by telephone that Khamenei’s talk “did n’t say something new” and appeared to be “aimed at lifting the morale of his fans” and” to remove the worry about a potential act of despair by Israel”.
” Even his comments about the Islamic republic not hesitating]to retaliate ] while also not rushing is not new. In this latest crisis, the Islamic Republic has tried to avoid starting an all-out conflict by doing this since the beginning.
According to Lebanese Transport Minister Ali Hamieh, the most recent Israeli attack earlier on October 4 severely damaged a road close to the Masnaa border passing between Lebanon and Syria, which has been a source of refuge for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents fleeing the issue in recent days.
Israel is consulting with the United States to determine how to listen to Iran’s flood of missile strikes on October 1.
U. S. President Joe Biden, when asked by reporters in Washington on October 3 whether the White House supports attacks on Iran’s oil services, said:” We’re discussing that”.
Nine people were killed in an Israeli assault on an apartment complex in Beirut on October 3, marking the first strike on the city’s heart of the country since 2006.
A security source claimed that the target of Israel’s airstrike on Beirut was an exact operation, and that it included an apartment building in Bachoura, the capital’s northern district, close to the Lebanese parliament.
A Hezbollah-linked legal defense team said seven of its people, including two doctors, had been killed in the Beirut harm.
At least 18 Palestinians were killed in an Jewish attack on the Tulkarm migrant camp in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli Health Ministry in a separate development.
The mind of Hamas ‘ community in Tulkarm was identified as Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi, who the Israeli military claimed in a statement that he had been killed in the attack and had been accused of participating in various problems.
Hamas has been labeled a criminal organization by the US and the European Union.
The recent wave of fighting started with its assault on Israel on October 7 next month. Hamas fighters crossed into Israel and killed some 1, 200 individuals. On their way back to Gaza, they likewise held prisoner 240 people.