The Iranian authorities have raised their voice against Israel in recent days and assure that They will respond with “fierce” At Israeli attack Saturday against military objectives which left five dead.
Although initial reactions to the Israeli missile attack were cautious, the situation has changed in recent days and Tehran now insists that it’s a certainty which will answer to the Jewish State.
“The response against the aggression of the Zionist regime is certain”, The deputy commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, General Ali Fadavi, said in statements on Lebanese television reported by Iranian media.
“We are capable of destroying everything the Zionists have in a single operation,” declared the high command of the elite military body whose mission is to safeguard the Islamic Revolution and controls the ballistic missile program.
For his part, the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guards, General Hosein Salami, declared that Tel Aviv committed “one more mistake and they will suffer.”. “Our response will be unimaginable,” assured Salami, as reported by IRNA.
At the same time, the head of the office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, claimed that his country was considering giving “a fierce and energetic response” to Israel’s “desperate action”, the Tasnim agency said.
A day after the Israeli attack, Khamenei appeared to calm down and said the “authorities” should decide the response and what is best for the country. but without promises of revenge. According to the Iranian version, the attack occurred in the provinces of Tehran, Ilam and Khuzestan and caused only “limited damage” to radars, in addition to causing the death of four soldiers and a civilian.
But US media report that satellite images show that the military centers of Shahroud, in the northeastern province of Semnan, and Khojir, near Tehran, have been damaged, claims directly denied by Iranian authorities. Both bases are believed to produce missiles.
The New York Times noted that Khamenei had ordered his National Security Council to prepare an attack on Israel given the damage to its infrastructure and the losses were “too great to ignore” and “Not to respond would be to accept defeat. »
For its part, the American media Axios believes that this new attack will be carried out from Iraq, where Tehran has several Islamist militias as allies. Saturday’s Israeli attacks were a response to the bombings with some 180 Iranian missiles on October 1, in retaliation for the assassinations of the leader of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, in Beirut and the leader of the Palestinian Hamas militia, Ismael Haniyeh, in Tehran in July. .
Last April, Tehran and Tel Aviv had already attacked each other directly, during what constituted the first direct confrontation between the two countries.
