Claiming to respond to the assassinations of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas leader Ismaïl Haniyeh, Iran fired nearly 200 missiles towards Israel on Tuesday.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader spoke. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, holding a rifle at his side, said on Friday (October 4) that the Iranian missile attack on Israel on Tuesday was “totally legitimate”, during a speech to thousands of people in Tehran. Israel “don’t have much longer”added the supreme leader, before warning: Iran’s allies, mainly Lebanese Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamas, “will not back down” facing the Hebrew State. And this, “despite the martyrs”, he added in reference to the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah killed on September 27 in an Israeli raid near Beirut, and that of Ismaïl Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, killed on July 31 in an attack in Tehran attributed to Israel.
Claiming to respond to these two assassinations, Iran fired nearly 200 missiles towards Israel on Tuesday. This The attack led to cross-threats of reprisals between Israel and Iran, further raising fears of an escalation in this conflict which was reignited the day after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli territory on October 7.
Since mid-September, Israel has shifted most of its operations to the northern front, in Lebanon, after weakening Hamas in the Gaza Strip during a devastating offensive that is still ongoing. Israel does not “cannot do serious harm” to Hezbollah and Hamas, said the supreme leader of Iran, considering that the fight of Hezbollah made a “vital service to the entire region”.
Returning to the attacks of October 7, Ayatollah Khamenei, who does not recognize the existence of the State of Israel, described the Hamas attack as “logical and legitimate”.