DECRYPTION – While Lebanese voices regretted Iranian passivity after the death of Nasrallah, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei approved the air attack in the hope of reestablishing a minimum of deterrence.
The Iranian ballistic missile attack by the Revolutionary Guards was approved by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The supreme leader of the Islamic Republic is still in a secret location in Iran, for security reasons, since the elimination by Israel of his ally, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah on Friday in Beirut.
“After a period of restraint, Iran targeted the heart of the occupied territories (the term used in Iran to designate Israel, Editor’s note) with dozens of missiles after the martyrdom of Ismael Hanyieh (the leader of Hamas), the intensification of attacks by the Zionist regime in Lebanon and Gaza, the martyrdom of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah and commander (of the Revolutionary Guards) Abbas Nilforoushan »read a journalist on state television. After having suffered severe blows in recent months, “Iran had to save face in front of the auxiliary groups that Tehran supports otherwise it would lose all credibility vis-à-vis…
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