The Government of Iran warned Israel that if it responds to the missile attack it launched this Tuesday, the response it will give “will be much more severe,” since he has only used a small part of his attack capacity.
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“The resistance front’s attacks on the worn-out and decadent body of the Zionist regime will be more crushing,” Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei warned in a message from X.
For his part, the Iranian Defense Minister, General Aziz Nasirzadeh, assured that Iran’s response to a possible Israeli attack will be “much more severe.”
“If the Zionist regime dares to respond, our actions will be much more severe and we will deploy a more advanced repertoire of the missiles we have,” said the minister, quoted by Press TV.
Iran launched an attack this Tuesday with some 180 missiles against Israel in response to the redoubling of the Israeli offensive against Lebanon, of which, according to the Revolutionary Guard, 90 percent reached their targets.
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The elite military body said in a statement that among the targets hit were those where the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, and an Iranian general were planned.
“We did that after enormous restraint for almost two months to make room for a ceasefire,” determined the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Seyed Abbas Araghchi.
From the White House, the National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan assured that although this new Iranian attack against Israel was “ineffective”, This is a “significant escalation” and will have consequences, although he did not want to advance any measures until he carefully evaluated the scope of the attack and spoke with Israel and its allies.
“The United States totally, totally, totally supports Israel,” declared President Joe Biden.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also described the Iranian attack as a “serious mistake” on Tuesday. and assured that Tehran “will pay” the price of the aggression. “Whoever attacks us, we attack him,” he stressed.
Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari announced early Wednesday that his country’s air force “will continue bombing heavily in the Middle East.”
Shortly after, the army announced that it was carrying out aerial bombardments against Hezbollah targets in Beirut.
The UN Security Council will meet urgently this Wednesday to discuss the escalation of hostilities in the regionscene of a war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and of Israeli incursions against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
It is not the first time that Iran has directly attacked its archenemy in recent months. On April 13, Tehran fired nearly 350 explosive drones and missiles at Israel, in response to a deadly bombing it blamed on Israel against the Iranian consulate in Damascus, the Syrian capital.
Most of the missiles had been intercepted by Israel with help from foreign countries.
The Iranian attack came on the same day that Israel announced military ground operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. and after a week of intense bombings against the Islamist movement, which caused hundreds of deaths.
At least 55 people were killed and 156 injured in Tuesday’s Israeli bombardment in several areas of Lebanon, the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported.
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