The supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, stated this Friday that the attack against Israel was “the least of the punishments for Israeli aggression”, comment he made during a collective prayer in commemoration of the assassinated leader of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah.
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“What our military forces did was the least of the punishments for the aggression of the Israeli regime,” said Iran’s highest political and religious authority at the Imam Khomeini mosque in Tehran, where thousands of faithful gathered.
“The action of our Armed Forces two or three nights ago was a legal act”Khamenei added, referring to the attack with 200 missiles on Tuesday night against Israel.
“Every blow to the Zionist regime is a service to all humanity”, he stated.
The religious stressed that “every nation has the right to defend its country and territory against the aggressor,” in a reference to the assassinations of Nasrallah and an Iranian general in Israeli attacks in Beirut on Saturdayand the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in July in Tehran.
“Hezbollah and its heroic leader and martyr They are the essence of Lebanon’s historical virtues and identity”he said about the Lebanese group that is one of Tehran’s main allies in the region.
Call for Islamic unity
He also called on the Muslim world to unite against the enemy, “whose policy is Divide and conquer.”
“The policy of the Quran is that Muslim nations must be united,” he said, while emphasizing that the “The enemy of Iran is the enemy of Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Yemen.”
Also pointed out the United States as the culprit for tensions in the Middle East.
“The United States seeks control of the region’s resources through the Israeli regime,” he assured.
And he reiterated that the Hamas attack against Israel on October 7, 2023 was legitimate.
“The Al-Aqsa storm was a legal and international measure and a legitimate right of the Palestinians,” who in his opinion have “the right to confront any enemy that has destroyed your home and your life.”
After the speech, he proceeded to lead his first collective Friday prayer since 2020, when he did so after the death of Qasem Soleimani, former general at the head of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), assassinated by the US. in Iraq.
Tuesday’s bombing was the second Iranian missile attack against Israelsince last April it attacked its territory for the first time with another series of missile and drone bombings in response to the death of seven soldiers at the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
After the attack, Israel has assured that it will respond, to which Iran has in turn said that it will respond with more force.
EFE
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