A senior Iranian Islamist regime official praised the Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah for its “creativity and flexibility,” while the country's Foreign Ministry condemned Israel's attacks on Hamas on Sunday and Monday and its support for Tehran's terror proxies, while Israeli authorities have warned Lebanese citizens to flee Hezbollah-controlled areas of the country.
Iran, the world's biggest sponsor of terrorism, is one of Hezbollah's most important financial backers and has welcomed the Lebanon-based terrorist organization as it wages a war in northern Israel for months, displacing more than 60,000 people.
Hezbollah has always opposed Israel's presence and has threatened to attack civilians in the country, but the terrorists dramatically escalated their fighting after the Iranian terrorist organization Hamas invaded Israel in October 2023, causing an unprecedented massacre that left about 1,200 people dead and dozens abducted. At the time of writing, Israeli officials believe In Gaza, 101 civilians remain in Hamas custody.
Warning for graphic content: The house where Hamas murdered an Israeli family in Kibbutz Be'eri
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Israel added the return of people displaced by Hezbollah to northern Israel to its official objectives in the war against Hamas last week. Last week, mysterious explosions of pagers, then walkie-talkies, solar panels, laptops and mobile phones used by Hezbollah terrorists to avoid Israeli espionage struck terrorist groups, shocking Lebanon but causing serious damage to top Hezbollah leaders. Notably, Iran's ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was also blown up. I was injured The man taking part in the attack was found to be in possession of a Hezbollah pager.
The Israeli military began warning civilians this week to evacuate Hezbollah-controlled areas of Lebanon. On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video message to the Lebanese people, making clear that Israel bears no ill will towards them.
“For too long, Hezbollah has used you as human shields. They have placed rockets in your living rooms and missiles in your garages. Those rockets and missiles are aimed directly at our cities, at our citizens,” Netanyahu said. “To protect our people from Hezbollah attacks, we must remove those weapons. Since this morning, the IDF has been warning you to stay away from dangerous areas. I urge you to take this warning seriously.”
No group or entity has claimed responsibility for the electronics explosion, including the Israeli government, but the Lebanese government, Hezbollah and others have accused Jerusalem of orchestrating the attack. Hezbollah has vowed to step up attacks on Israel in retaliation.
Regarding Hezbollah's escalating attacks on Israel, Major General Mohsen Rezai, former commander of Iran's advisory body, the Emergency Council of Iran, and now head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said: Predicted The terrorists were “on the brink of a great victory.”
“This victory will be very important and great because it will liberate West Asia from the clutches of the Western countries,” Rezaei told Iran's state-run propaganda media on Sunday. Press TV.
“Hezbollah is a leader in innovation, creativity and flexibility, and its human resources will not run dry for the next 100 years,” he celebrated. Rezai also said, “Iran has never wanted war, but if an enemy assassinates a national guest in the capital, Tehran, Iran should definitely respond,” Press TV reported.
The latter comment appeared to be a reference to the killing of Hamas “political” leader Ismail Haniyeh, who visited Tehran in July to attend the inauguration of President Massoud Pezeshkian. Iran has repeatedly threatened a major attack on Israel in revenge for Haniyeh, a longtime ally of the Iranian regime, but has yet to act as of this writing. However, Rezai's reference to Haniyeh's assassination in tandem with Hezbollah's operations suggests that Iran views Hezbollah's actions as an extension of its own operations against Israel.
Meanwhile, Iran's Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned Israel's military response to Hezbollah's expulsion of tens of thousands of Israelis.CrazyThe Iranian government has accused “terrorists” of bombing Hezbollah positions and has attacked Western countries that did not defend Hezbollah. In particular, Hezbollah is widely believed to have been behind the worst terrorist attack in the Western Hemisphere's history before September 2001, the 1994 bombing of the headquarters of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people.
“He harshly criticized the US and Israeli-backed Western countries' lack of reaction and support to the Zionist regime's continuing crimes against Palestine, condemned attempts to expand the war to the entire region and warned of the dangerous consequences of Zionist new adventurism,” Iran's Tasnim news agency reported Kanani.
Tasnim also reported that in recent comments, Kanani publicly praised the October 7 Hamas massacre, which genocidal jihadists have dubbed the “Flood of Al-Aqsa.”
“In an interview with Tasnim, Nasser Kanani said Operation Al-Aqsa Storm had shifted the strategic balance in favor of the Palestinians and resistance groups,” Tasnim reported. Reported “Echoing remarks by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Kanani said Operation Al-Aqsa Storm dispelled the myth of the Israeli regime's invincibility,” it said on Monday.
The pro-Hezbollah messages coming out of Tehran on Sunday and Monday clashed with statements made to reporters by recently installed “moderate” President Pezechkian during a visit to New York this week to attend the UN General Assembly.
“On behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we convey a message of peace,” Pezeshkian said. said Upon arriving in New York, he praised the UN's “theme for this year: peace, security and efforts towards achieving a future of security and progress for all people.”
“Pezzechkian stressed the need to replace war, bloodshed and genocide with a world in which humans can live comfortably regardless of skin color, race, ethnicity or region. [sic]Tasnim quoted Pezeshkian as saying, “Sadly, this is not the world we live in today. There is a double standard that divides people into good and evil. This is why the problems we are witnessing arise.”
