“Bombing the homes of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon is not a victory”“It's a war crime.”continued Ali Khamenei. Last Thursday, judges at the Hague institution issued international arrest warrants against them, finding there were “reasonable grounds” to believe they are criminally responsible for crimes ranging from mass attacks and systematic use of starvation as a method of war against the population of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli strikes on Iran: Netanyahu says 'nuclear program has been hit'
A “posture of deterrence”
The declarations of the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, the main support of Palestinian Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah in the fight against Israel, punctuate a series of “declarations of war” against the Jewish state. Senior Iranian officials have taken turns in recent days to express Iran's “resolute” intention to carry out armed reprisals against Israel, following air raids carried out by the IDF on Iranian territory just a month ago.
Iran's nuclear program, now a “threshold power”: a prime target for Israel's response
“Military officials are planning various strategies to respond to Israel” with the aim of maintaining a “posture of deterrence” important for Iran, said last Sunday Ali Larijani, advisor to the supreme leader and former president of the Islamic Assembly, during an interview with the semi-public Tasnim news agency (close to the Revolutionary Guards). . “The leaders of the Zionist regime (Israel) are drowning and taking the Americans with them, thus tarnishing the reputation of the United States in the region.underlined Mr. Larijani. He still believes that Washington “orchestra” current events in the Middle East while pushing “others (parties) on the front line”.
The day before, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran's response was “inevitable” et “resolved”. As for the timing and method chosen for this third part of the response called honest promisethey will be determined by the “strategic conditions”specified the head of Iranian diplomacy in an interview with television Al Mayadineclose to Hezbollah.
With its attack, Iran “notifies that it is now ready to go directly to war with Israel if necessary”
Powerful explosives
Since the start of the war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas, Iran has carried out two direct attacks against the Jewish state. The first, unprecedented, in mid-April using hundreds of missiles and drones, followed the bombing attributed to the IDF of the Iranian consulate in Damascus. The second, on October 1, with some two hundred ballistic missiles, in retaliation for the assassinations of Hamas leaders Ismaïl Haniyeh and Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah.
On October 26, as a response to this latest attack, dozens of Israeli combat planes went to bomb various Iranian military and industrial sites and installations. Among the targets hit were radar systems and missile production factories. Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that a nuclear site was among the targets destroyed. It is in reality a unit dedicated to testing powerful explosives linked to the development of nuclear weapons, on the Parchin site located east of Tehran.
