Iran’s Revolutionary Guards assured on Thursday (19) that Israel will suffer “a crushing response” after the explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to members of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon, which killed 37 people and injured 3,200 others. The Iranians attributed responsibility for the detonations to Israel, the country did not claim responsibility or comment directly on the act.
“There will soon be a crushing response from the Axis of Resistance and we will witness the destruction of this bloodthirsty and criminal regime,” Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander-in-Chief General Hossein Salami said in a message to Hezbollah terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah, the portal reported. Iran Nuances.
“These terrorist acts are undoubtedly the result of the desperation and successive failures of the Zionist regime,” added the head of Iran’s powerful military force.
The so-called Axis of Resistance is an informal anti-Israel alliance led by Iran and composed of terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, the Palestinian Hamas, and the extremist Houthi rebels in Yemen, among others.
Both Iran and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for the simultaneous explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies on Tuesday (17) and Wednesday (18) that also injured the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani.
According to the official Iranian version, the Iranian diplomat is in good condition.
In turn, Iran’s representative to the United Nations, Saeed Iravani, warned on Thursday that his country reserves the right to respond “legally to the attack” on its ambassador in Lebanon.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday criticized Western countries and especially the United States for their support for Israel following the explosions in Lebanon, which he described as the “height of criminality.”
In late July, Hamas terrorist leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, where he had traveled to attend Pezeshkian’s inauguration ceremony, and the Islamic country vowed to exact harsh revenge, which has yet to happen.
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