The United States and Israel “will certainly obtain an amazing response,” Iran’s supreme chief stated, following Israel’s assault on Iran per week in the past.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the remark whereas chatting with college students on Saturday forward of the forty fifth anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran.
The risk comes as Iran considers whether or not and the way to reply to an assault launched by Israel final month he said he killed four soldierswhich was in retaliation for an Iranian missile assault on Israel in early October.
The Iranian assault got here in response to the killing of leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas – Iran-backed armed teams preventing Israel – and a senior Iranian commander.
Khamenei stated Iran’s enemies, together with Israel and the United States, “will certainly obtain a crushing response for what they’re doing to Iran, to the Iranian folks and to the resistance entrance.”
Iran’s so-called “resistance axis” is an alliance of Tehran-backed teams that embody Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and well-armed teams in Iraq and Syria. Most have been designated as terrorist entities by some Western states.
Israel is alleged to have inflicted extreme harm on Iran’s air defenses and missile capabilities in its October 26 assault, though Iran has not admitted this.
Israel sees Iran as the primary supporter of the Hamas assaults that killed round 1,200 folks on October 7 final yr.
More than 250 had been additionally taken hostage within the Gaza Strip.
Since then, Israel has launched a significant operation in Gaza, throughout which greater than 43,300 folks have been killed, in response to the native Hamas-run Health Ministry.
Israel additionally launched the offensive in opposition to Hezbollah in Lebanon in September, after almost a yr of cross-border preventing and rocket fireplace, which Hezbollah launched in assist of the Palestinians the day after the Hamas assaults.
Israel stated it wished to make sure the protected return of tens of hundreds of residents from northern Israel displaced by the battle.
Since then, greater than 2,800 folks have been killed in Lebanon and one other 1.2 million displaced, in response to Lebanese authorities.
Israeli authorities say greater than 60 folks have been killed by Hezbollah rocket, drone and missile assaults in northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights.
Relations between the United States and Iran haven’t adequately stabilized since November 4, 1979, when Iranian protesters seized greater than 50 diplomats and U.S. embassy employees, triggering a hostage drama that lasted 444 days.
