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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered his military officials to prepare a retaliatory attack against Israel, The New York Times reported on October 31, citing Iranian officials.
The order came after a series of Israeli strikes hit Iranian military targets, including air defenses and missile sites, on October 26. The strikes were themselves a response to a large-scale ballistic missile attack launched by Tehran against Israel on October 1.
The New York Times, citing three officials with knowledge of Iran’s war planning, said that Khamenei had ordered plans drawn up by his Supreme National Security Council on October 28 after being briefed on the extent of the damage from the Israeli strikes, which killed four Iranian officers.
Khamenei said a day after the strikes that Iranian officials should determine how best to demonstrate Iran’s power to Israel, noting that the Israeli attack should “neither be downplayed nor exaggerated.”
The New York Times reported that Iran’s response would not come until after the United States presidential elections, which is set to be held on November 5.
The officials who spoke to the newspaper said that Tehran would hold off until after the election, fearing that increased tensions could boost former president Donald Trump’s chances against Democrat candidate Kamala Harris.
Nevertheless, both Axios and CNN reported on October 30, also citing officials with knowledge of Iran’s war planning, that the Iranian retaliatory attack could be launched ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
A more recent report by Axios from October 31 said that Israeli intelligence was preparing for an attack in the coming days involving a large number of ballistic missiles and suicide drones launched by Iran-backed armed factions in Iraq. The report cited two Israeli sources.
Carrying out the attack from Iraq could be an attempt by Tehran to avoid another Israeli attack against strategic targets in Iran, the U.S. news site said.
Also speaking on October 31, Major General Hossein Salami, head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, warned of an “unimaginable” response to Israel.
“Israel has reached the stage of collapse and these days it acts blindly and without abiding to any rules it commits every crime,” the commander said, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
Despite all recent reports, it is still unclear if Iran will respond to the latest Israeli attack. Iran’s alleys in Iraq have been launching missile and drone strikes against Israel since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip last year. Linking their action to Tehan may be an attempt to justify future Israeli military operations against Iraq, whose airspace was allegedly violated during the attack on Iran.
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this time use 4,000 drones and missiles to finish the job once and for all. get rid of the colonization send them back to whatever hole they come out of.
get out of palestine you bunch of children killer’s
it no longer matters if iran attacks israel before or after. trump is going to win. what iran should be doing from now until inaguation is getting ready in case trump decides to apply maximum pressure and the best way to prevent that is geting nooks and weapons of mass dissuasion to prevent anyone from threatening iran from anihilation.
yes, i hope trump wins
zionist child killing bastards need to be eliminated.
that’s one way since the jews army isn’ much good, cheaper anyway in terms of money but not lives! attacking the iron dome with large number of heavy missiles in a second and third wave and aiming for the society supposed to protect the jews is costlier bur wreaks havoc quicker than via iran. one two three all at the same time!
correction : last line should be iraq!
also supplied with the latest stuff from russia, sam:s in iraq to take care of the jews’ f35s and whatever the impotent brits can put together and while at it, send the king of jordan together with the jews to kingdom come. never to heard of again!
usa has 3 enemies. russia, china and iran.
russia is busy in ukraine.
china is about 10 years away from taking on the usa
iran is a sitting duck.
usa will take on iran alongside the filthy jews and russia and china will do nothing.
infact the only country on erth that will ever attack israel are the iranians.
every other country is run by jews and their puppets- including every muslim country.
for goodness sakes- the house of saud are ncient jews- they aint even mudslimes
you stand corrected no need for war the brics will be the end of the american empire we don”t need wars to destroy the america just kill the us petrodollarr
with no america israel will no longer exist
iran will not attack israel from iraq; not now; not ever. iraq has begged both the u.s. and iran not to drag them into a proxy war. unlike the u.s.; iran respects iraq’s sovereignty.
iran can only degrade the israeli military by intervening, the complete elimination of the regime is the right and the will of the locals of the region: the palestinians, syrians and lebanese, and the egyptians if they stop cowering.