According to media reports, the US government assumes that the Iran prepared an “imminent” rocket attack on Israel. According to US media reports, there are indications of this, according to a statement from a government representative. Such a direct attack would have serious consequences for Iran. “We are actively supporting defense preparations to protect Israel against this attack,” the government representative was quoted as saying.
Israel had recently significantly weakened Iran’s allies in the region. At the end of July, for example, the foreign chief of the Islamist Hamas was killed in Tehran. Iran’s leadership then vowed revenge. Last Friday, Hassan Nasrallah, head of the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah, another key ally of Tehran, was killed. Since then, it has been unclear whether and how Iran’s military leadership will respond.
In April, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) carried out a direct attack on Israel for the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic. The IRGC air force fired more than 300 drones, rockets and cruise missiles at their arch-enemy. The attack was successfully repelled. Iran was reacting to the killing of high-ranking generals who were killed in a suspected Israeli attack in Syria.
They have been in effect since the revolution of 1979 USA and Israel as arch-enemies of the Islamic Republic. With the outbreak of the Gaza war almost a year ago, there were multiple threats that the shadow conflict would develop into a conflagration. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are the country’s elite armed forces and are considered significantly more powerful than the regular army.
On Tuesday, Israeli ground troops entered Lebanon for the first time in almost two decades. Around a year after the start of the Gaza war, the focus of the fighting is shifting towards the neighboring country to the north. The army spoke of “limited” attacks near the border on targets of the Shiite Hezbollah, which is closely allied with Iran.
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According to media reports, the US government assumes that the Iran prepared an “imminent” rocket attack on Israel. According to US media reports, there are indications of this, according to a statement from a government representative. Such a direct attack would have serious consequences for Iran. “We are actively supporting defense preparations to protect Israel against this attack,” the government representative was quoted as saying.
Israel had recently significantly weakened Iran’s allies in the region. At the end of July, for example, the foreign chief of the Islamist Hamas was killed in Tehran. Iran’s leadership then vowed revenge. Last Friday, Hassan Nasrallah, head of the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah, another key ally of Tehran, was killed. Since then, it has been unclear whether and how Iran’s military leadership will respond.
