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Iran operation further debunks Israel’s invincibility myth: Commander

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Commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force Brigadier General Kioumars Haydari says Iran’s retaliatory operation against Israel has further dispelled the threadbare myth that the wicked and child-killing Tel Aviv regime is unbeatable.

Haydari stated on Tuesday that the successful launch of hundreds of missiles and drones at the occupied territories in retaliation for the Israeli regime’s April 1 terrorist strike on the Islamic Republic’s consulate in Syria was a severe and crushing response to the notorious Zionist regime.

He emphasized that the destruction of Israeli military bases falls within the framework of Tehran’s success in countering and neutralizing the financial, logistical and intellectual support of the criminal US administration and its allies in West Asia and across the globe.

“The Iranian Armed Forces can now confront any type of threats and nip any threat in the bud, thanks to constant vigilance and watchfulness… The courageous and decisive action of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran melted the hearts of millions of freedom-loving Muslims, grief-stricken Gazans and fighters from resistance factions, and lived up to the divine promise about the victory of truth over falsehood,” the Iranian Army’s Ground Force chief pointed out.

Haydari further highlighted that the Iranian retaliatory attack targeted the most strategic base and surveillance site of the Israeli military at the Jabal al-Sheikh Heights on the border between occupied Palestinian territories and Syria.

“The strike on that base and Nevatim Airbase, which accommodates the Zionist regime’s strategic logistics, delivered a crushing blow to the Zionist regime’s decision-making and deterrence power,” the high-profile Iranian military figure stated.

Haydari underscored that the deterrence power and combat preparedness of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Armed Forces have warded off any act of aggression against the country, stating that the recent retaliatory attack against Israel showcased a fraction of Iran’s military might and made the Israeli army taste a great defeat.

“A much severe response awaits the Zionist regime’s forces if they commit another strategic mistake,” he stressed.

‘Israel will get stronger response in case of new aggression’

Separately, Haydari said at a news briefing in Tehran on the occasion of the National Army Day, which is celebrated annually on April 18, that the Tel Aviv regime will receive a much stronger response if it opts to carry out a new act of aggression against Iran.

He stated that Iranian Armed Forces are now at the apex of their combat preparedness, and that the Israeli regime must know that he have created a new equation and will response to their vicious bids.

“Armed Forces decisively responded to the nation’s request. Our forces proved that the Zionist regime is weaker than a spider’s web,” Haydari stated.

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Bombing Iran consulate critical challenge to intl. law norms

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The Israeli regime attacked Iran’s consulate in the Syrian capital of Damascus on April 1. The Israeli aggression led to the destruction of the entire building and the martyrdom and injury of the entire people inside it.

Seven of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military advisors were martyred following the Israeli attack on Iran’s consulate in Damascus on Monday, IRGC said in a statement.

Reacting to the Israeli aggression, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kan’ani on Monday night said that the Islamic Republic of Iran, while reserving its rights to take countermeasures, decides on the type of reaction and punishment of the aggressor.

In response to the Israeli aggression, Iran attacked the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories with a barrage of drones and missiles early on Sunday.

The following is the text of an interview with Celina R. Caesar-Chavannes, a former member of parliament and parliamentary secretary to the prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau about the recent Iran-Israel development:

Despite the Western countries’ efforts to label Iran’s attacks on Israel as invasion, how do you see Iran’s response to increasing Israeli crimes including attacking Iran’s consulate in Syria based on international law and the UN charter?

 The ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran operates within an often ambiguous international framework, where actions and reactions can be interpreted in various ways depending on one’s perspective. The reported bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria by Israeli forces presents a critical challenge to the norms of international law. According to the United Nations Charter, diplomatic premises are considered extensions of national sovereignty. Thus, attacks on such premises can be seen as direct assaults on the sovereignty of a nation, violating the Charter’s prohibition against the use of force. This incident, therefore, not only escalates tensions but also raises significant questions about adherence to international legal standards.

Iran didn’t target any civilian sites like hospitals, schools, etc, but Israel acted against civilians in Gaza brutally. What is the main reason for these two different behaviors?

Addressing the divergent tactics reportedly employed by Iran and Israel, particularly regarding the targeting of civilian infrastructure, it is essential to approach this issue with a commitment to humanizing all parties involved. While I cannot speculate on the specific motivations behind each actor’s military strategies, it is crucial that the international community upholds standards of justice and protection for civilians. Acts that deliberately target civilian areas are deplorable and should be condemned. Compassion must be at the forefront of any response, ensuring that civilian lives are protected and preserved.

What can be the effect of Iran’s attack on increasing Iran’s deterrence power and weakening Israel’s?

In terms of the strategic impacts of Iran’s response and its implications for regional deterrence dynamics, it is my view that recent actions are unlikely to significantly alter the deterrence capabilities of either side. Instead, these actions may lead to further escalation and instability in the region. Historical patterns suggest that such conflicts tend to perpetuate cycles of retaliation rather than achieving lasting peace or security. It is imperative for all involved parties and the international community to seek paths toward de-escalation and to engage in dialogue aimed at achieving sustainable peace.

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US does not seek conflict with Iran: Pentagon spokesman

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Retaliating against Iran’s attack on Saturday will be a decision made by Israel, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

“I don’t want to get into hypotheticals. At this point, whether or not Israel responds to Iran’s attack, of course, is something for Israel to discuss and to decide,” Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters.

When asked has Israel informed the Pentagon if it plans to respond to the Iranian attack, Ryder said he is not going to speak for Israel.

The US does not want to see escalation, he stressed, adding Washington will take necessary measures to protect its forces in the region and to defend Israel.

Reiterating that the US does not seek conflict with Iran, Ryder said: “When it comes to any type of Israeli response, and again, I’m not going to speak for the Israelis. That is a decision for them to make in terms of what they do, if they do it and how they do it.”

Iran launched more than 300 missile and drone attacks across Israel on Saturday evening in a retaliation to airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Syrian capital Damascus on April 1 in which seven members of Revolutionary Guards including two generals were killed.

Ryder said the US was not informed by Iran in advance about Saturday’s attack.

“We were not given specifics by Iran, into my knowledge, any specifics in terms of exact times, dates,” he added. “We obviously have a robust intelligence network that provides indications and warning. But to answer your specific question: No, Iran did not tell us when and where they were going to attack”.

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Iran attack on Israel controlled powerful response

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“It has been about 190 days since the Zionist usurper regime bombed Gaza and killed the oppressed Palestinian people. This regime did not adhere to the UN Security Council resolution to stop the Gaza war and did not implement it,” Abolfazl Amouei said in an interview with Mehr News Agency.

Referring to Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israeli military bases in occupied Palestine in response to the Tel Aviv regime’s airstrike on the country’s consulate building in the Syrian capital of Damascus on April 1, the senior Iranian lawmaker said that the anti-Israeli attack was carried out based on Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, and Iran’s action was a legitimate defensive action.

“In this operation, we responded to the aggression of the Zionist regime with the aim of restoring deterrence, and it was a powerful and at the same time controlled response and it had its effect,” he underlined.

“From the beginning, we announced that we are not seeking war in the region, but we are seeking to reduce tension and solve problems in the region, and we consider the main problem to be the crimes of the Zionist regime against the people of Gaza. With the end of these crimes and the Palestinian people getting their rights, the tension in the region will definitely decrease. It is the aggressive nature of the Zionist regime that constantly increases tensions in the region.”

He went on to say that if the Islamic Republic of Iran had refused to respond to the Zionist regime’s attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, then the Zionists would have miscalculated that Iran was unable to respond, he added.

In response to the Israeli terrorist attack on Iran’s consulate building in Syria on April 1, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked targets in occupied Palestine with dozens of drones and missiles early on Sunday.

The Israeli regime attacked Iran’s consulate in the Syrian capital of Damascus on April 1. The Israeli aggression led to the destruction of the entire building and the martyrdom and injury of the entire people inside it.

Seven of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military advisors were martyred following the Israeli attack on Iran’s consulate in Damascus.

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Iran playing long game in its dealings with Israel

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Former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter stressed that Iran is playing the long game in its dealings with Israel, carefully calibrating its actions to restore deterrence against the country rather than concerning itself with world opinion, Sputnik reports.

The former US Marine Corps intelligence officer offered the analysis on Sputnik’s Fault Lines program Monday, challenging the perception that Israel is in a stronger position after intercepting most of Iran’s retaliatory strikes over the weekend.

“The point is prior to this Israel had established a dominance – I’ll call it deterrence dominance,” claimed Ritter. “Meaning that, from an Israeli perspective, nobody should ever dare attack Israel, that Israel has let it be known that if you attack Israel, there will be a ten-fold response, that your life would end, it would be horrible, you can’t do it. And, for the most part, people didn’t attack Israel.”

“And so Israel had become very arrogant, had become sort of the neighborhood bully writ large,” he explained. “And this is why Israel was bombing Syria with impunity, striking targets in Lebanon with impunity, striking targets in Iraq with impunity.”

Israel frequently bombs Syrian airports and other infrastructure and has been illegally occupying the country’s Golan Heights territory since 1967. In 1982 the Israeli military bombed the Lebanese capital of Beirut so aggressively the US President Ronald Reagan referred to the event as a “holocaust,” hurting the feelings of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Observers also suggest Zionist opposition to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein played a role in the United States’ decision to invade the country and remove him from power in 2003. “It’s very clear: Israel had the most influence in this and more so since we know how the Israelis were running into the Pentagon consulting with Rumsfeld and all those guys without even having to show any badge or anything,” former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern claimed on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program recently.

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French praise Iran missile retaliation against Israel

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Pro-Palestinians in France gathered the day after what was reported to be the first peaceful night in Gaza in six months.

The reason for this was that the night before Iran had launched a historic missile retaliation against Israel, which prevented Tel Aviv from continuing its attempt at genocide and ethnic cleansing.

At the demonstration, there was widespread approval, support and even gratitude and admiration for Tehran’s counterattack against the unprecedented bombing assassination at the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus.

I’m not an anti-Semite, and as a Muslim, I want us all to live together peacefully. But I see Iran’s attack as something good on their part.


Iran is the only major country which has had the courage to attack Israel and defend Palestine’s innocent civilians.


This war can easily stop if Israel can finally realize that they are attempting genocide.


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Those who are occupiers do not have the right to legitimate defense.


But Iran does have the right and they use it to defend Gaza as well.


Israel bombs and assassinates people constantly. How can people forget about what Israel has done?


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Protesters contrasted Iran’s actions with those of the French foreign minister last week.

After mentioning the possibility of placing sanctions on Israel over Gaza, he immediately backtracked the next day in front of Parliament.

The French government is an accomplice in the genocide that Israel is waging right now.


Why aren’t there any sanctions despite all these deaths? And when France talks so much about defending human rights, it is simply shameful.


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French forces claim to have contributed to Israel’s defense.

In a major blow to Israeli hopes of escalating the violence, Washington has already refused to join any potential Israeli attack on Iran.

It’s uncertain if the cycle of Israeli assassination and Iranian retaliation is now concluded.

Nevertheless, Israel has already returned to its campaign of indiscriminate bombing and mass murder in Gaza despite six months of global outrage, the murder of 34,000 Palestinians and 76,000 injuries.

Will Israel pursue an even wider war?

Will more Arab nations be inspired to join the cause of defending Gaza?

What is certain, however, is that many are happy that, for one night at least, the guns aimed at Gaza civilians finally fell silent.

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Zionist officials confused after Iran’s anti-Israel operation

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On April 1, the Israeli terrorist attack on Iran’s consulate building in Syria provoked a response from the Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on April 13.

The IRGC fired dozens of missiles and drones on Israeli targets, which caused confusion among the Zionist authorities.

Dual and contradictory reaction of Zionists

The Zionists have experienced a clear contradiction in reaction to the legitimate response of the Islamic Republic of Iran. On the one hand, the Zionist authorities claimed that they intercepted all Iranian missiles and drones with no damage. On the other hand, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was under intense pressure from cabinet members and some critics, causing him to hold frequent war cabinet meetings to consider how to respond to Iran’s anti-Israel operation.

Such contradictory statements are a significant indication of the heavy defeat of the Zionist regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the hard and irreparable blow that Tel Aviv has suffered from Tehran.

The Zionist newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, described the attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus as a wrong act due to miscalculations by the Zionist regime’s cabinet and termed the night of Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel as a “strategic circus” for the regime.

US expert Scott Ritter said, “Iran attacked Nevatim Airbase with at least seven new hypersonic missiles. Nevatim is home to the F-35 jet fighters that attacked the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Not a single Iranian missile was intercepted.”

In fact, considering the conflicting positions of the Zionists, who on the one hand claim that the Iranian attack was not successful and on the other hand they have attempted to restore the lost deterrence after the attack shows that, contrary to the media positions in Israel, Iran’s attack was calculated and successful and has been able to inflict a major blow on the Zionist regime.

Why was Iran’s response an irreparable blow?

Unlike the Zionist regime, the Islamic Republic of Iran did not take a surprise action against the Zionist regime and the response time of the Islamic Republic of Iran was clear, and the countries in the region knew about it.

On the other hand, although some Western countries supporting the Zionists made media hype and denounced the legitimate defense of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran did not target any residential settlement and diplomatic centers.

Iran targeted Israeli military bases with missiles and drones. However, the Zionists were confused and frightened a few days before Iran’s response, and this turmoil reached its highest level on the night of Iran’s response. Iran’s clever planning was one of the reasons for the Zionists’ failure and hard hit.

In addition, the Zionist regime is now in a military mess. On the one hand, it claims to have one of the world’s largest militaries; on the other hand, it does not have the power to decide how to respond to Iran’s actions.

The regime does not know whether to respond militarily to Iran’s action or to listen to the advice of its most important supporter, the United States, and not to move toward escalation with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Zionists also faced a strong warning from the Islamic Republic of Iran that if it took military action against Iran, Tehran’s next response would be far more difficult and more severe.

Conclusion

The former Israeli prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, after years of declaring the fake regime following the victories in the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War, said a very thoughtful sentence: “Israel can win 100 battles and still endure its problems, but losing a single war would mean its destruction.”

The Zionists are now trying not to express the realities, but they believe that they have ceded the battle to the Islamic Republic of Iran. They fear the death of the regime before reaching 80 years old.

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Iran to not let Israel to disturb peace, stability of region

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In a telephone conversation on Tuesday, the foreign ministers of Iran and Oman discussed the latest developments in the region, especially the current developments in Palestine.

Amir-Abdollahian explained Iran’s positions regarding the process of developments in the region, especially after the IRGC ( Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) operation against the aggressive military targets of the Zionist regime, as well as Iran’s measures in the political, legal, and international fields.

He emphasized that Iran considers the security and stability of neighboring and friendly countries in the region as its own stability and security, adding that  Iran will not allow the Zionist regime to disrupt the peace and stability in the region with its adventurism.

Sayyid Badr bin Busaidi, the foreign minister of Oman for his part condemned the Zionist regime’s aggression and crimes in the region, especially against the Palestinian people, emphasizing the need for close coordination and consultation between the countries of the region to overcome the current sensitive situation and ensure stability and security.

The foreign ministers of Iran and Oman also reviewed the latest humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, stressing the need to continue and strengthen the efforts of the two countries along with other influential Islamic and Arab countries in the international fields to end the crimes of the Zionist regime, establish an immediate ceasefire and sending humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza.

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Two Palestinians killed in West Bank amid drastic rise in settler attacks

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Israeli settlers have killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials and witnesses, after a weekend of escalating violence across the territory.

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing the Palestinian Health Ministry, identified the victims of the Monday attack near the northern West Bank village of Aqrabah, located eighteen kilometers (11.18 miles) southeast of Nablus, as Abdulrahman Maher Bani Fadel, 30, and Mohammed Ashraf Bani Jame, 21.

Salah Bani Jaber, mayor of Aqrabah, who witnessed the settler attack, said that about 50 settlers, many of them armed, attacked members of his community.

They “assaulted residents and fired at people in the town leading to the death of two citizens,” the mayor said, adding that “the occupation army is still holding the bodies.”

“There were Israeli soldiers at the scene who stood idly by watching the settlers,” he told the Reuters news agency.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said Israeli soldiers blocked its ambulances from reaching the area and tending to the wounded.

The Israeli military asserted in a statement that it was looking into the incident.

Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank are under constant threat as armed Israeli settlers continue to launch violent attacks on them, their families, and their homes in acts of vengeance.

Palestinian Ministry of Health officials reported on Monday that four Palestinians had been killed in Israeli settler attacks since Friday.

The recent settler attacks are part of a broader wave of violence which has heightened since Israel’s devastating war on Gaza. The war has killed at least 33,797 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, and wounded another 76,465 individuals, according to the health ministry in the territory.

Armed settlers and the Israeli army have killed 460 Palestinians and injured 4,800 others in the occupied West Bank since October 7.

On April 13, Israeli settlers spearheaded a large-scale attack on the village of al-Mughayyir, where they killed one Palestinian man and injured 25 others.

Since then, settlers have attacked more towns and villages near Ramallah, including Bukra, Dayr Dibwan and Kfar Malik.

Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank, and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

The aggression includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, and attacks on vulnerable families, among others.

Over 700,000 extremist Israeli settlers are living in illegal settlements across occupied East al-Quds and the West Bank in violation of international law.