The head of Iran’s most elite military department responded to the Israeli Defense Minister’s warning, saying that Iran was prepared to deal with any potential aggression by its main enemy.
There is high tension between Iran and Israel due to a series of dark maritime incidents, including the recent fatal explosion on a vessel linked to Israel and the alleged unauthorized boarding of another United Arab vessel in the Gulf of Oman. Oil tankers owned by the Emirates.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz told Ynet News on Thursday, “Israel prepares to attack Iran.”
According to Israeli media reports, he added: “We are at a time when we need to take military action against Iran.” “The world now needs to take action against Iran.”
This remark was made a day later by the Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett Said that his country is seeking to unite the international community against Iran, but it can also “act alone” against its opponents during a visit to the borders of northern Israel with Syria and Lebanon. Hostilities will break out in a day.
Then, on Thursday, Major General Hussein Salami, the commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, spoke to his navy on his way to the southern coast of Iran, refuting the Israeli threat.
“Those who use threatening language to oppose us, including the prime minister of the Zionist regime and other officials of the regime, must pay attention to the dangerous consequences of their comments and exercise the necessary caution when calculating,” Salami said.
He warned that Tehran is also ready to deal with anything.
“We are prepared for every situation,” Salami added, “just as some preparations are observed on the coast of the Persian Gulf today, these preparations exist in all areas of our defense forces.”
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Iran and Israel have been actively antagonizing each other’s interests in the Middle East since at least the 1980s, when Iran’s new revolutionary government began to support the powerful Hezbollah movement and oppose Israel’s invasion of Lebanon.Today, Hezbollah continues to operate in southern Lebanon and Syria, where Israel is Regularly crack down on targets suspected of being related to Iran Accused of establishing a forward operating base and transferring advanced weapons.
Successive U.S. governments have supported Israel’s right to self-defense, but the U.S. military has found itself involved in the conflict. Militia allied with the Iran-led regional “axis of resistance” fired rockets at U.S. positions in Iraq and Syria.
Long-time rivals Washington and Tehran briefly found common ground when they reached a nuclear agreement with world powers in 2015, allowing the lifting of international sanctions on Iran in exchange for a nuclear program to contain the country.But the former president Donald TrumpThe withdrawal of the agreement three years later and the return of unilateral US sanctions have triggered new tensions in the form of regional unrest on land and at sea, and the restart of Iran’s nuclear enrichment activities.
His successor, the president Joe Biden, Has started to restore the agreement, but indirect negotiations between the two countries and other signatories, China, European UnionFrance, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom have been procrastinating in the Austrian capital Vienna since April without reaching a consensus.
Since taking office on Wednesday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has reiterated his country’s commitment to never build nuclear weapons and reach an agreement in Vienna.
“According to the religious order of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, the government of the Islamic Republic bans nuclear weapons, which have no place in the Islamic Republic’s national defense strategy,” Raisi said at the inauguration on Thursday. “Pressure and sanctions policies will not cause the Iranian people to abandon their legal rights, including the right to development. Sanctions on Iran must be lifted, and we will support any diplomatic plan to achieve this goal.”
State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a speech that as long as it is in the interests of the United States, the United States is also prepared to resume negotiations.
“The United States will defend and advance the national security interests of us and our partners,” Price said. “We hope that Iran can now seize the opportunity to advance the diplomatic solution and the diplomatic solution before us. We are waiting for the approach that the new Iranian government will take.”
He said that the United States is ready to return to Vienna and acknowledged that Lai Xi has reiterated its support for diplomacy in the near future. But Price said the proposal will not “last forever.”
“The longer this situation lasts, the advantages of our national security will begin to be diminished by the advances Iran can make under the current circumstances of lifting its nuclear program,” Price said. “So we took note of this, and that’s why we urge the new Iranian government to resume diplomacy.”
Price added: “If President Raisi is really determined to lift the sanctions, then this is exactly what Vienna has on the table.”
But Israel, widely believed to have its own semi-secret nuclear arsenal, opposes any effort to revive the nuclear agreement.
On the day before issuing a clear warning to Iran, Gantz said at a briefing to foreign ambassadors together with Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid that Tehran had violated the nuclear agreement and was “distance from the acquisition of nuclear weapons. There are only 10 weeks left for the weapons-grade materials needed.”
“Now is the time to act-talking is not enough,” Gantz said at the time. “Now is the time for diplomatic, economic and even military operations, otherwise the attack will continue.”
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