Iran warns US to step aside as it prepares to hit Israel after Syria attack
UNHRC adopts resolution over Gaza war, India among 13 countries to abstain The US is on high alert and is preparing for a “significant" response from Iran against Israeli or American targets in the region. Earlier this week, an Israeli airstrike hit the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing at least seven Iranians, including two generals. While Israel has repeatedly targeted Iran-linked assets in Syria over the past few months, this was the first time an attack struck an Iranian diplomatic building.
Joe Biden warns of shift in policy if Netanyahu fails to protect Gaza civilians Israel has been on alert since then, canceling home leave for combat troops, calling up reserves, and bolstering air defenses. Its military scrambled navigational signals over Tel Aviv on Thursday to disrupt GPS-navigated drones or missiles that might be fired at the country. Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, on Friday said a response from Iran is undoubtedly coming.
But, he said, his group won’t “interfere in such decisions." “And after that, how Israel will behave, the region would enter in a new phase," Nasrallah said in a televised speech. Israeli strikes deliberately targeted Gaza homes at night, with families present Nasrallah, who lives in hiding, highlighted the coordinated work of Iran’s so-called resistance groups in the region. Hezbollah, the Middle East’s most powerful militia, said the group hasn’t used “its primary arsenal" in the daily skirmishes with Israel along the southern border of Lebanon since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7.
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