Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei threatens US, Israel of ’crushing response’ amid Israeli attack
- Looking at the broader picture, any further attacks from either side could engulf the wider Middle East into a wider regional conflict just ahead of the US presidential election on 8 November.
Amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday threatened both Israel and the US with 'a crushing response' over attacks on Iran and its allies, reported AP.
Iran's supreme leader spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch another strike against Israel after its 26 October attack on the Islamic Republic, which targeted military bases and other locations and killed at least five people.
Looking at the broader picture, any further attacks from either side could engulf the wider Middle East into a wider regional conflict just ahead of the US presidential election on 8 November. The region is already teetering over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and Israel's ground invasion of Lebanon.
“The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or the United States of America, will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian nation and to the resistance front," AP quoted Khamenei as saying in a video released by Iranian state media.
Though Ayatollah Ali Khamenei didn't elaborate on the timing of the attack, nor the scope.
The 85-year-old Khamenei had struck a more cautious approach in earlier remarks, saying officials would weigh Iran's response and that Israel's attack “should not be exaggerated nor downplayed,” added the report.
Attack on central Israel injures 11:
With Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatening both Israel and the US, an attack on a central Israeli town early Saturday injured 11 people.
The predawn strike on Tira, which followed air raid sirens across central Israel, was one of several barrages fired from Lebanon early in the day. Many of the projectiles were intercepted by Israeli air defenses, while others landed in unpopulated areas.
The Magen David Adom emergency service said 11 people were hurt by shrapnel and glass shards in a direct strike on a building in Tira, a predominantly Israeli Arab town. Three were in moderate condition, while the others suffered milder injuries.
Israel's military has not confirmed either base was targeted or hit.
With agency inputs.
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First Published:2 Nov 2024, 04:55 PM IST
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