IRAN WARNS OF POSSIBLE ‘PRE-EMPTIVE ACTION’ AGAINST ISRAEL ‘IN COMING HOURS’

Tue 17 October 2023:

Iran has warned that “pre-emptive action” could be expected in the coming hours and that Israel will face consequences for action it takes in Gaza, state TV reported.

“All options are open” to the so-called resistance front to respond to Israel’s “war crimes”, foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said.

“The resistance front is capable of waging a long-term war with the enemy… in the coming hours, we can expect a pre-emptive action by the resistance front.

“Leaders of the resistance will not allow the Zionist regime to take any action in Gaza.”

He added: “All options are open and we cannot be indifferent to the war crimes committed against the people of Gaza.”

Explained: Iran’s foreign minister did not expand on what he meant by resistance front, but the term Axis of Resistance can refer to a loose alliance among Iran, Palestinian militant groups, Syria, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and other factions.

Iran finances groups like Hamas and Hezbollah in the region, according to the US.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei previously said it was not involved in Hamas’s attacks on Israel, but hailed the idea Israel’s military and intelligence services would be “irreparable”.

On Monday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that while Tehran supported the Palestinian cause, the resistance front against Israel made its own independent decisions.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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