2024-04-19 02:58:09
Iran, which launched an airstrike on Israel‘s mainland in retaliation for the consulate attack, warned that it would respond in kind if Israel attacked its nuclear facilities.
Commander Ahmad Hagtallab, head of nuclear security for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), told Iran’s Tasnim news agency on the 18th (local time), “If the Zionist regime (Israel) attacks our nuclear facilities, we will definitely counterattack.”
Commander Hagtalab went on to emphasize, “Israel’s nuclear facilities have been identified and we can press the trigger,” adding, “We are ready to destroy Israel’s ‘designated targets’ with powerful missiles.” He added, “It is entirely possible to reexamine our nuclear doctrine and politics.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, who attended the UN Security Council meeting on this day, also said, “If the Israeli regime uses force and violates our sovereignty, we will make it regret its actions,” and added, “We will take a decisive and appropriate response.” “We will not hesitate at all to exercise our unique rights,” he said.
After 13 people, including high-ranking officials of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, were killed in an airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Syria on the 1st, Iran, which blamed Israel, launched a retaliatory attack on mainland Israel in the early morning of the 14th. About 330 ballistic and cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) were launched by Iran at Israel over a period of 5 hours.
Of these, 99% were shot down by the Israeli military and the US and British troops stationed in the Middle East, causing minimal damage. Nevertheless, this was the first time that Iran, which had used its proxy forces such as Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Lebanese Hezbollah, directly attacked mainland Israel, so tensions in the Middle East reached their peak.
Iran’s position is that all retaliation for the consulate attack has ended with this airstrike, but Israel is holding an emergency war cabinet meeting and discussing response plans. At the meeting on the 15th, it was reported that the principle of striking against Iran but avoiding an all-out war considering the concerns of allies such as the United States was established.
Based on this, some have discussed the idea of striking Iran’s nuclear facilities. Israel has hindered Iran’s ‘nuclear ambitions’ in various ways in the past, bombing Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981 and Syria’s nuclear reactor in 2007.
According to an announcement from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last February, Iran continues to enrich uranium with a purity of 60%, which can be made into a nuclear bomb within two weeks. Therefore, there is speculation that even if Israel strikes Iranian nuclear facilities, opposition from the alliance could be minimized as the West has opposed Iran’s nuclear development.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on both Israel and Iran to exercise restraint. Secretary-General Guterres said at the Security Council meeting that day, “It is time to end the vicious cycle of bloody retaliation,” and added, “The international community must work together to prevent actions that could have a fatal impact on civilians and push the entire Middle East to the brink.” said.
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2024-04-19 02:58:09