Iran warns Israel, US of retaliation

The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued renewed threats to Iranian arch-enemies Israel and the United States on Saturday, following the recent military confrontations.

“The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or America, will certainly receive a devastating response to what they are doing to Iran and the resistance front,” the 85-year-old Khamenei said at an event in Tehran.

Whether there would be a military response to the Israeli retaliatory attack a week ago initially remained open.

The danger of a major, open war between Iran and Israel recently increased.

A week ago, Israel hit Iran with airstrikes in what the country described as retaliation for an Iranian missile attack at the beginning of October.

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Afterwards, there were contradictory statements and reports as to whether Iran’s military would respond.

Iran’s so-called Axis of Resistance, an informal alliance of Islamist militant groups backed by Tehran, includes the Lebanese Hezbollah movement and the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip.

(dpa/NAN)