Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei vowed Saturday to retaliate “scathing” to any attack by the United States and Israel, which announced that it had captured a “high-ranking Hezbollah agent” pro-Iranian during an operation by an elite unit in Lebanon.
The Israeli army continues its wars against Hezbollah in Lebanon and Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In the north of this territory, health conditions are deplorable after more than a year of bombing. A few days before the presidential election on November 5 in the United States and despite international pressure, attempts to end hostilities have remained in vain.
Bombardiers B-52 Stratofortress
In this explosive context, the United States announced on Friday new deployments in the Middle East, including means of defense against ballistic missiles, combat planes and bombers, which will arrive “in the coming months” for the “defense of Israel” and as a warning to Iran.
B-52 Stratofortress bombers are already present in the Middle East, the US military announced on Saturday.
“The enemies, both the United States and the Zionist regime (Israel, Editor's note), must know that they will certainly receive a scathing response to their actions against Iran and the resistance front”warned Ali Khamenei in Tehran, whose country has been engaged in a cycle of attacks and responses with Israel in recent months. On October 26, Israel targeted military sites in Iran in retaliation for Iranian missile attacks against Israeli territory on October 1.
Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas and launched a devastating offensive in Gaza after an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement against its territory on October 7, 2023. It also wants to neutralize Hezbollah on its northern border, after the Lebanese movement opened an front against him in support of Hamas.
