Iran Threatens To Attack Israel After Air Strike
By Worthy News’ George Whitten and Stefan J. Bos
TEHRAN (Worthy News) – Iran suggested Saturday it would attack Israel after a deadly strike in Syria killed several members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards.
“Iran … reserves its right to respond to the organized terrorism of the fake Zionist regime at the appropriate time and place,” the foreign ministry spokesperson, Nasser Kanaani, told state media.
He condemned the killing of at least four members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Syria’s capital, Damascus, on Saturday as a “desperate attempt to spread instability in the region.”
Tehran was quick to blame Israel for the attack, but there was no immediate comment from Israel’s government.
However, the strike came shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Israel is attacking Iran, apparently on several fronts.
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Kanaani also condemned “frequent violations of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and an escalation in aggressive and provocative attacks” by Israel.
The rising Israel-Iran tensions came as news emerged that several Iran-backed groups, including the IRGC, are coordinating with Houthis in Yemen to attack ships in the Red Sea.
Iran’s IRGC commanders and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group are on the ground in Yemen, helping to direct and oversee Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, several security sources said.
Iran – which has armed, trained, and funded the Houthis – stepped up its weapons supplies to the militia as a result of the war in Gaza.
The war erupted after Iranian-backed fighters of Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, killing at least 1,200 people in the worst atrocity on Israeli soil since the current state of Israel’s foundation over 75 years ago.
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