Iran’s supreme leader issues new threat after initially playing down Israeli strikes on Iranian military facilities
A satellite image shows damaged buildings at Iran’s Parchin military base near Tehran after Israeli strikes on 26 October.A satellite image shows damaged buildings at Iran’s Parchin military base near Tehran after Israeli strikes on 26 October.Israel is bracing itself for another Iranian attack after a crescendo of threatening rhetoric from leaders in Iran warning that the country would retaliate for an Israeli missile strikes last month.
Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani, the supreme leader’s chief of staff, vowed on Thursday that an Iranian response was certain and that it would be “fierce and tooth-breaking”. According to some reports, Israeli intelligence believes the next Iranian attack could be launched from Iraq, where Iran has close allies among the Shia militias, who are armed with Iranian ballistic and cruise missiles. The flight time from Iraq would be substantially shorter than from Iranian territory, from where the missiles were
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said at a graduation ceremony for Israeli officers on Thursday: “Regarding Iran, we struck its soft underbelly.” He added: “The haughty words of the Iranian regime’s leaders cannot cover up the fact that in Iran today, Israel has greater freedom of action than ever before. We can go anywhere that we need to in Iran.”
Zimmt said the Tehran leadership faced a dilemma: failing to respond would be interpreted as weakness, at home and abroad, but a new attack on Israel could further fuel escalation at a time when Iran is vulnerable.
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