By The Opinion
Iran launched several waves of missiles against Israel this Sunday in retaliation for the Jewish state’s attacks on Lebanon, Iranian state television reported.
“Iran has launched missiles against Israel,” reported IRIB (state television).
The official media showed images of missiles flying over the sky in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah and of people celebrating the new offensive in the streets.
While the attack was taking place, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abás Araqchí, published on his X account an image of the Iranian and Lebanese flag.
The military offensive comes after Iran warned that, if Israel’s attacks against Lebanon continued, the Islamic Republic would retaliate considering that the ceasefire it reached with the United States on April 8 includes the Arab nation.
The speaker of Parliament and chief Iranian negotiator, Mohamad Baqer Qalibaf, stated this afternoon that Israel’s attacks on Lebanon make the bases of both countries legitimate targets.
“The naval blockade against the Iranian nation and the green light that the United States has given to the Zionist regime today make US and regime bases and assets in the region legitimate targets.“, said the politician and former long-established member of the Revolutionary Guard in X.
Shortly before, the spokesman for the National Security Commission of the Iranian Parliament, Ebrahim Rezaei, warned that Iran will respond “firmly and harshly” to Israel’s attack on the Dahye neighborhood of the Lebanese capital.
“We will respond firmly and harshly to the Zionist regime’s attack against Dahye“, the influential conservative politician said in X. “Be attentive to the sky over the occupied territories (Israel) tonight,” he indicated.
This bombing against Dahye is the first since Lebanon and Israel agreed on Wednesday to a ceasefire conditional on the cessation of the attacks and without the presence of Hezbollah, an Iranian ally that rejected the proposal and once again called on local authorities to abandon the negotiations.
The attacks coincide with the arrival in Tehran of Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Mohsin Naqvito deliver a “special message” to Iranian Supreme Leader Mokhtaba Khamenei regarding the stalled peace negotiations between Iran and the United States.
Tehran demands an end to attacks on Lebanon as part of the negotiation process to reach an agreement to end the war that began in February and allow the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for global oil and gas trade. EFE
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