Friday, October 4, 2024

Iran threatens to hit Israeli energy sites if nation retaliates for missile attack


Iran threatens to hit Israeli energy sites if nation retaliates for missile attack

Times of Israel is liveblogging Friday


Iran will target Israeli energy and gas installations if Israel attacks it, the semi-official Iranian news agency SNN quotes Revolutionary Guards deputy commander Ali Fadavi as saying.

“If the occupiers make such a mistake, we will target all their energy sources, installations, and all refineries and gas fields,” Fadavi said.

In Beirut, Iran’s FM says Tehran ‘firmly’ supports Lebanon

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi vows support for Tehran’s “friends” in Lebanon, on his first visit to Beirut since fighting between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah intensified last month.

“Be sure that the Islamic Republic of Iran is and will be firmly standing by the friends in Lebanon,” Araghchi tells reporters, adding that Tehran supports Lebanon, its Shiite Muslim community and Hezbollah, “and it was necessary to say this in person.”

New airstrikes reported in Beirut’s Dahiyeh

Two rockets launched at Israel from Gaza in now rare occurrence

Army destroys 3.5-kilometer smuggling tunnel from Syria to Lebanon

Defense Minister Gallant: Israel has ‘more surprises in store’ for Hezbollah

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says Israel has “more surprises in store” for Hezbollah, as ground operations continue in southern Lebanon.

“Hezbollah is receiving very severe blows, one after the other. We eliminated [Hezbollah chief Hassan] Nasrallah and we have more surprises in store, some of which have already been carried out and some of which will be carried out,” he says during a visit to the 36th Division’s headquarters in northern Israel. The division’s troops are operating in southern Lebanon.

“[Hezbollah’s] missile and rocket division suffered a very heavy blow. A significant part was destroyed as a result of a high-quality and precise operation. Command and control headquarters, communications, the entire leadership of [the elite Radwan Force], and in fact the entire second and third tiers of command below Nasrallah were eliminated,” he continues.

Gallant adds that the IDF is “carrying out an operation today in several villages, and this process will continue wherever necessary to destroy all the infrastructure from which Hezbollah planned to carry out attacks.”

Khamenei defends Oct. 7 Hamas massacres in Israel as ‘logical and legal’

Ali Khamenei says last year’s Hamas massacres in Israel, which triggered the war in Gaza, were “logical and legal.”

“The Al-Aqsa Flood attacks that took place around this time last year were a logical and legal international move and the Palestinians were right,” Khamenei says at a rare Friday prayer sermon in Tehran.

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