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Iran now faces a major decision on how Hezbollah should respond to the recent Israeli strike in its stronghold of al-Dahiya, Beirut's southern suburbs and the operation center of Hezbollah.
"Israel—and specifically Prime Minister Netanyahu—is in a stronger geopolitical position today than has been in months and will be interested in seizing the moment to reduce Iranian threats ...
The Security Council met after Israel struck missile factories and other sites in Iran before dawn on Saturday. It was retaliation for Iran's Oct. 1 attack on Israel with about 200 ballistic missiles.
On the morning of 19 April, Israel retaliated against Iran. Israel attacked three targets in or near Isfahan International Airport, including a military base. One of the targets was a radar for the Natanz nuclear site. Iran claimed that its air defense shot down all Israeli projectiles and that the explosions were from air defense, but ...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has promised a “teeth-breaking” response to Israel and the United States after Israel targeted Iranian military sites in retaliatory strikes late ...
The relations between Iran and Israel are divided into four major phases: the ambivalent period from 1947 to 1953, the friendly period during the era of the Pahlavi dynasty from 1953 to 1979, the worsening period following the Iranian Revolution from 1979 to 1990, and the ongoing period of open hostility since the end of the Gulf War in 1991.
Iran's vice president for Strategic Affairs Javad Zarif contended that Iran had the right to self-defense against Israeli attacks on Iranian soil and criticized Western countries for aiding "the Israeli genocide in Gaza" and acquiesing "in Israeli aggressions against Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and other countries in the region". [113]
The strikes served as retaliation for an Oct. 1 Iranian missile bombardment that did little damage to Israel. That attack had been in response to the killing of a Hamas leader in Tehran that Iran ...