Iran To Deliver 'Definitive And Painful' Response To Israel

The Next Round Is Coming - Iran Prepares Another Attack On Israel

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Iran's supreme leader has instructed the country's Supreme National Security Council to prepare for another assault on Israel, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

The report, which cited three Iranian officials, said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the decision on Monday after reviewing a report from senior military commanders on the extent of the damage caused by last week's Israeli strikes on Iran's missile production capabilities and air defense systems, critical energy infrastructure and a main port.

Khamenei was said to have told his associates that the scope of Israel's unprecedented Oct. 26 retaliatory strikes was "too large to ignore."

The sources said that military commanders were readying a list of dozens of targets inside the Jewish state, but that the attack would likely occur after the U.S. presidential vote on Nov. 5 due to concern in Tehran that additional tensions in the region could boost former President Donald Trump.

Earlier on Thursday, two sources in Jerusalem told Axios that Israeli intelligence suggests the Islamic Republic was preparing to attack the Jewish state from Iraq within the coming days.

The sources said the attack was expected to be carried out "using a large number of drones and ballistic missiles."

On Thursday night, the Israel Defense Forces announced that aerial-defense systems intercepted two drones that approached the country's territory "from the east," a phrase the military uses to refer to Iraq.

CNN on Wednesday quoted a "high-ranking" anonymous source as saying Tehran would soon deliver a "definitive and painful" response.

"The response of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Zionist regime's aggression will be definitive and painful," the source said, adding that the attack would probably take place before the U.S. presidential election.

"If Iran makes the mistake of launching another missile barrage at Israel, we will once again know how to reach Iran, with capabilities that we did not even use this time, and strike very, very hard at both their capabilities and locations that we set aside for now," IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi warned on Tuesday.