Iran warns Israel of 'crushing response' to Lebanon device blasts
Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned Israel that it will face a "crushing response from the resistance front" after thousands of communication devices used by Hezbollah in Lebanon exploded.
Israel has not commented on the attacks that killed 37 people and wounded nearly 3,000 over two days but has said it will widen the scope of its war in Gaza to include the Lebanon front.
"Such terrorist acts, that are undoubtedly due to the desperation and successive failures of the Zionist regime, will soon be met with a crushing response from the resistance front," Guards commander General Hossein Salami said in a message to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, quoted by state media.
The resistance front led by Iran includes Tehran-backed groups across the Middle East, including Lebanon's Hezbollah, Yemen's Houthi rebels, and Shiite armed groups in Iraq as well as Palestinian militant group Hamas.
In April, Iran fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel, after it bombed an annex of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, killing seven Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals. Most were intercepted by allied air forces or Israel's own air defenses.
20 September 2024, 17:53
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Brave words from a country that isn't using its own troops instead relying on mercenaries.
20 September 2024, 21:04
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Iran Revolutionary guards that killed and imprisoned tens of thousands of most educated Iranians by brutally suppressing the Green Revolution in 2010 when a third of Iranian people demonstrated against this criminal Iranian regime. The Basij could not extinguish the flame of freedom and democracy as proven last year with massive demonstrations by Iranian diaspora in dozens of capitals. Green Revolution and Cedar Revolution are twins. Their revival is coming soon to get rid of the criminal Iranian and Hizbollah leaders and free the Iranian and Lebanese people. Hossein Salami, Nassrallah and the like will soon be facing justice for their crimes.
