Iran on Monday continued to threaten a “nightmare” attack on Israel following the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in late July, amid international concern the attack could pose. Tehran’s nuclear development program Which has been going on uncontrolled for more than three years.
“The nightmare of Iran’s inevitable response is shaking Israel day and night,” said Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Jerusalem Post reportsQuoting Saudi-owned news outlet Al-Arabiya.
The commander reportedly claimed that Israeli leaders were concerned with a vague threat that the attack would be “much more painful and different than you expect.”
Hossein Salami, Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, delivers a speech during the funeral ceremony of Razi Mousavi, an Iranian adviser in Syria, at Imam Hussein Square in Tehran, Iran, December 28, 2023. (Photo: Hossein Baris/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
Despite the ominous tone expressed by Salami, Iran has been issuing similar threats against the Jewish state for more than a month Aftermath of Haniya’s murder During his visit to Tehran on July 31.
Iran has directly blamed Israel for the killing, claiming it was carried out with a precision missile, although Jerusalem has not taken credit for the killing.
The US has joined other Middle Eastern countries in warning Tehran not to attack Israel over fears it could spark a wider regional war, although concerns remain that Iran could launch retaliatory attacks through Hezbollah – the Lebanon-based militant organisation that Iran has supported for decades.
Nissim Vaturi, a member of Israel’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the Knesset, said, echoed these concerns He said on Monday that he believed a war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon was just days away.
Vaturi said Israel needed to take a provocative approach and attack Hezbollah’s strongholds in Lebanon with air strikes followed by a ground invasion – a scenario experts have warned could result in far higher casualties than in previous attacks. War going on in Gaza for one year,
“I think it’s time to deal with the North,” he said, according to the Times of Israel. “Our patience has run out.
“There is no other way,” he said, adding that Beirut’s Dahiyah suburb — a major Hezbollah stronghold outside the capital city — “will look like Gaza.”
Iran has not yet clarified how it wants to negotiate the issue. Let’s launch this long awaited counter-attack A major terrorist attack against Israel has taken place, however news of the supply of ballistic missiles to the terrorist organization has alerted security experts.
This photo taken from a location in northern Israel shows a Hezbollah UAV intercepted by the Israeli Air Force over northern Israel on August 25, 2024. The Israeli military announced it was carrying out preemptive strikes in Lebanon after detecting preparations for “large-scale” attacks by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah. (JALA MARY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iran It is not believed to have nuclear weapons. But the warning issued by the UN nuclear watchdog on Monday has once again drawn attention to the fact that Tehran’s nuclear programme has been running rampant for the past three and a half years.
“It has been more than three and a half years since Iran stopped implementing its nuclear-related commitments under the JCPOA,” Rafael Mariano Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the agency’s board of directors. “Therefore, it has also been more than three and a half years since the agency was able to conduct supplementary access to Iran.
“As a result, the agency has lost continuity of knowledge regarding the production and inventory of centrifuges, rotors and bellows, heavy water, and uranium ore concentrate,” he said.
Grossi said Iran has increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium metal. Not only 20% purity levelBut 60% – that is slightly less than the step needed to reach weapons grade uranium, which is enriched to 90% purity.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei looks inside a uranium plant. (Getty Images)
“There has been no progress in resolving outstanding safeguards issues,” he said, pointing to Iran’s false claims that it has declared all nuclear activities, materials and locations. “I call on Iran to implement the joint statement through serious engagement with the agency’s concrete proposals.”
Rossi said he called on new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to abide by the agreements reached under the March 4, 2023 joint statement and urged the president to meet with him “in the not too distant future” so the two could “establish a constructive dialogue that leads swiftly to real results.”
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Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagar stands next to an Iranian ballistic missile that fell into Israel over the weekend during a media tour at the Julis military base near the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malachi, April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
The European Union (EU) on Monday accused Iran of providing short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to aid its war effort against Ukraine, citing “credible” information provided by allies. Radio Free Europe reports,
The EU is still reportedly investigating the information, but EU spokesman Peter Stano said if it was found that Iran had provided Moscow with explosive weapons, the response would be “swift” and include “new and significant restrictive measures” against Iran.
The Kremlin on Monday did not outright deny that it had been sent missiles capable of carrying nuclear, chemical and conventional weapons.
