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Israel’s response to Iran: Tehran says its determination to defend itself ‘knows no limits’

Iran “will not hesitate to react in a decisive and proportionate manner to any violation of its territorial integrity and security at the appropriate time,” warned its head of diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi, this Saturday, October 26.

This Saturday, October 26, Iran affirmed its right to defend itself after the attacks carried out by Israel against its military facilities, the latest episode of hostilities between the two enemy countries that accentuates fears of a military escalation in the Middle East.

For the first time, Israel publicly announced that it had attacked Iran by launching predawn airstrikes on Saturday against missile manufacturing facilities in that country. Iran reported “limited damage” and four soldiers killed.

Israel then threatened Iran with making it “pay a heavy price” if it retaliated, while the international community called for restraint in the face of the risk of conflagration.

“I hope this is the end,” said US President Joe Biden, whose country is a close ally of Israel and its main weapons supplier.

The Israeli incursions are a response to a missile attack launched by Iran against Israeli territory on October 1, a spiral of violence linked to the wars waged by Israel against two Islamist movements supported militarily by Iran: the Palestinian Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Iran “will not hesitate to react”

“Iran has the right and duty to defend itself against foreign acts of aggression, based on the inherent right of self-defense (…),” said Iranian diplomacy.

Iran “will not hesitate to react in a decisive and proportionate manner to any violation of its territorial integrity and security at the appropriate time,” warned its head of diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi. Iran’s determination to defend itself “has no limits.”

According to the Iranian military, Israel attacked “military sites in the provinces of Tehran, Khuzestan (southwest) and Ilam (west).” “Thanks to our air defense, the attacks caused limited damage and only some radar systems were damaged,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces announced. “A significant number of missiles were intercepted and enemy aircraft were prevented from entering our airspace.”

In Israel, the army claimed to have “hit missile manufacturing sites (…) that Iran has been firing at the State of Israel for a year,” as well as “surface-to-air missile batteries and other aerial systems (. . .)”.

With these strikes, the Israeli military said it had “completed the response to Iran’s attacks.”

A “limited” operation

On October 1, Iran fired some 200 missiles at Israel to avenge the deaths on September 27 of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and an Iranian general, killed in Israeli strikes near Beirut, and on July 31 in Tehran, of Hamas leader Ismaïl Haniyeh, assassinated. in an attack attributed to Israel.

On April 13, Iran launched missiles and drones against Israel, the first direct attack of its kind, in response to an attack attributed to Israel that destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus.

According to experts, the goal of the attack was to demonstrate Israeli offensive capabilities while avoiding escalation. For Joost Hiltermann, director of the Middle East program at the International Crisis Group, the United States wanted these retaliations to be “proportionate, so that Iran would not have to respond.”

Likewise, Hasni Abidi, director of the Center for Studies and Research on the Arab and Mediterranean World (Cermam), believes that, under pressure from the United States, Israel carried out a “limited” operation to reduce the risks of an “explosion.” Israel “delivered a media and political coup, not a military one.”

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On the Lebanese front, the Israeli army reported “80 projectiles” fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon and continued its attacks in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah then called for the evacuation of a dozen communities in northern Israel, a call similar to that made by the Israeli army in Lebanon before carrying out the attacks.

Israeli troops have been carrying out a ground offensive in southern Lebanon since September 30 with the aim of neutralizing the fighters of the Lebanese movement and stopping the launch of rockets.

After a year of a devastating and deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip that weakened Hamas, the Israeli army concentrated its operations in Lebanon, carrying out intense and deadly attacks mainly against Hezbollah strongholds beginning on September 23.

On the Gaza front, the Israeli army continues its air and ground offensive in the devastated Palestinian territory plunged into a humanitarian catastrophe.

New negotiations are expected on Sunday in Doha between Israelis, Americans and Qataris to discuss the possibility of a truce in Gaza associated with the release of the hostages kidnapped on October 7, 2023 and taken to Palestinian territory.

Author: J.Bro with AFP
Source: BFM TV

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