Iranian state television aired a message Thursday from an ayatollah in Iran calling for the “shedding” of blood from Israelis and US President Donald Trump, as the Islamic Republic continued to threaten revenge and repercussions for the war being waged against it by the US and Israel.
The message from Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli represented one of the few clerical statements coming from Iran as it faces a combined airstrike campaign from the two countries.
He called for “the shedding of Zionist blood, the shedding of Trump’sblood.”
“The imam of the time says, ‘Fight the oppressive America, his blood is on my shoulders,’” the ayatollah added.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday that they had hit a US tanker in the northern part of the Gulf and the vessel was on fire. There was no confirmation from the US. The Guards said in the statement carried by state media that, in time of war, passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be under the control of the Islamic Republic.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said earlier that Washington“will bitterly regret the precedent it has set” in its torpedo attack on the Iranian frigate Dena in international waters on Wednesday, which sank the ship and apparently led to the deaths of most of the crew.
Araghchi said the strike occurred without warning and called it “an atrocity.”
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The pace of Hezbollah rockets and drones being launched on Israel has jumped dramatically since Monday, even as the rate of Iranian ballistic missiles dropped significantly from Saturday-Sunday to the rest of the week, the IDF Home Front Command said on Thursday.
According to the IDF, northern residents spent most of the night in their safe rooms and bomb shelters because of consistent fire.
If on Monday, Hezbollah’s attack on Israel was symbolic, it appears that in response to Jerusalem’s much heavier crackdown on hundreds of attacks on Hezbollah, the terror group has now gone all-in on its attacks against Israel.
IDF sources said that it was even possible that this trend could continue with Iranian ballistic missiles dropping off even further, but the threat from Hezbollah expanding,
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The Israel Defense Forces carried out a large-scale airstrike on an Iranian military compound in eastern Tehran on Wednesday. The compound housed the headquarters of all of the regime’s security organizations, according to the military.
Targeted command centers linked to Iran’s security apparatus included headquarters belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Quds Force, the Basij paramilitary volunteer militia, the Intelligence Directorate, Internal Security forces and the regime’s cyber warfare unit, according to the statement.
According to the IDF, Iranian operatives overseeing operations against Israel and suppressing domestic protests were present at the site. The military said the attack was part of its ongoing effort to “degrade the Iranian terror regime in Tehran.”
Meanwhile, Israeli and U.S. forces continued to jointly attack Iranian targets on Thursday as the IDF announced in the morning that it had begun a “large-scale wave of strikes against infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime across Tehran.”
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The US tested a doomsday ballistic missile off the California coast Tuesday night — as war raged in the Middle East.
The Minuteman III ballistic missile — which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima — launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara at 11 p.m.
The unarmed rocket, known as GT 254, hit its intended target near the Marshall Islands in the west-central Pacific Ocean, according to the US Space Force.
The missile was fired to “verify the effectiveness, readiness andaccuracy,” according to the Air Force Global Strike Command.
“[It] allowed us to assess the performance of individual components of the missile system,”Lt. Col. Karrie Wray, commander of the 576th Flight Test Squadron said in a press release.
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