The war in Lebanon is accompanied by an escalation between Israel and Iran, which on Tuesday launched about 200 missiles, including ballistic missiles, at Israel, which led to an increase in mutual threats and fears of the flames of the entire Middle East.
Iran announced that this missile strike came in “response” to the killing of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli raid, and the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, on July 31 in Tehran, in a strike attributed to Israel and the latter did not comment on it.
For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to respond to the Iranian attack, saying that Tehran “will pay the price.”
The newspaper reported,HaaretzIn Hebrew, on Saturday, the Israeli army said that it was “preparing for a major attack on Iran,” in response to the missile attacks launched by the latter a few days ago.
The missile attack launched by Iran on Tuesday evening was “the largest ever in the history of Israel,” according to what the American ABC network quoted a spokesman for the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon.
Danon said on Tuesday: “Tonight, Iran carried out the largest and most violent missile attack against the State of Israel in its history. We are prepared and ready, defensively and offensively.”
A “senior official in the US State Department” had told the network:CNNThe American newspaper, on Friday, said that Israel “did not provide guarantees to the White House regarding not targeting Iranian nuclear facilities,” in response to the missile strikes launched by Tehran on October 1.
He added, “It is really difficult to know whether Israel will take advantage of the first anniversary of the October 7 attacks to implement its response against Iran.”
Previous reports spoke of the possibility that Israel’s potential targets in Iran might include oil, military, and nuclear facilities.
That official, whose identity was not revealed by CNN, said that he hopes and expects that Israel will have “some wisdom about not targeting nuclear facilities,” adding: “But as you know, there are no guarantees.”
US President Joe Biden announced earlier this week that the United States will not support Israel’s targeting of nuclear facilities in Iran.
He continued in a press conference on Friday: “If I were in their place, I would think of other alternatives.”