Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that “no one can stop the resistance forces” if Israel continues to bomb Gaza in response to the October 7 Hamas attack.
“If the crimes of the (Israeli) Zionist regime continue, Muslims and resistance forces will become impatient and no one will be able to stop them.”said Khamenei.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amir Abdolahian also warned of possible “preventive action” in the coming hours by “resistance groups” against Israel if attacks in Gaza continue.
‘A possible preventive action by the resistance is expected in the coming hours’Abdolahian said on Iranian state television on Monday evening.
The so-called Axis of Resistance is an informal alliance led by Iran and consists of militant Islamic organizations such as the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah, the Palestinian movement Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
The head of Iranian diplomacy assured that the “Resistance leaders will not allow the Zionist regime in Gaza to do what it wants” and emphasized that this is the case “the ability to wage a long war with the enemy”.
The leader of Hezbollah “said that if they do not take preventive measures, they will have to fight the Zionist forces in Beirut”the capital of Lebanon, said Abdolahian, who met with Hassan Nasrallah a few days ago.
Iran has warned on several occasions that if Israel’s bombing and siege of the Gaza Strip continues, other fronts in the conflict could emerge.
Hosein Amir Abdolahian had said that before “time for political solutions is running out; the likely extension of the war to other fronts becomes inevitable”.
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran and Hezbollah not to test the Israeli army in the north of the country.
The Islamist movement Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on October 7, launching thousands of rockets and invading armed militiamen, killing 1,400 people.
In response, Israel bombed several infrastructures in the Gaza Strip, which it identified as belonging to Hamas, and imposed a total siege on the territory, cutting off water, fuel and electricity supplies.
According to local Palestinian authorities, retaliatory attacks have killed more than 2,800 people since October 9, mostly Palestinian civilians, including hundreds of children.
Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel is “at war” with Hamas and that the Israeli army is preparing a ground offensive in the small enclave of Gaza, which has been under an Israeli land, air and sea blockade for 15 years.
Source: DN
