Iran‘s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, promised this Saturday that his country will respond to attacks by Israel and the United States against Tehran or against its allied groups in the region.
“The United States, like the Zionist regime (Israel), has to know that they will undoubtedly receive a crushing response for what they are doing against Iran, the Iranian nation and the resistance front,” Khamenei said in a speech to a group of students. in Tehran.
Regional tensions have skyrocketed since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict, following the unprecedented attack on October 7 launched by fighters of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in southern Israel, which also dragged in groups related to Iran in Iraq and Syria.
For its part, the Lebanese Hezbollah movement opened a front against Israel the next day, in support of Hamas, which governs Gaza.
On September 23, Israel intensified its bombing against positions of the Lebanese movement. A week later, the Israeli army began ground incursions into southern Lebanon.
In parallel, tensions between Iran and Israel intensified. Tehran launched a missile attack on Israeli territory on October 1 of this year, in retaliation for the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in an Israeli bombing near Beirut, and the death of Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas, at late July in an operation attributed to Israel.
Israel responded with bombings against military facilities in Iran on October 26.
On the other hand, the United States announced on Friday the deployment of additional military means to the Middle East, to ensure “the defense of Israel” and as a warning signal to Iran.
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