Iran says Israel will ultimately lose in a war with Hezbollah
Iran’s mission to the United Nations said, “Any unwise decision taken by the occupying Israeli regime to save itself could plunge the region into a new war, the result of which would be the destruction of the infrastructure in Lebanon as well as the territories occupied in 1948.”
There is no doubt that this war will have one loser in the end, and that is the Zionist regime. The Lebanese Resistance Hezbollah movement can defend itself and Lebanon, and perhaps the time has come for the self-annihilation of this illegitimate regime.
Israel also issued a threat to Iran-allied Hezbollah on Friday, with Foreign Minister Israel Katz saying, “We will soon make the necessary decisions” regarding confronting the Lebanese group.
He added: The free world must stand unconditionally alongside Israel in its war against the axis of evil led by Iran and extremist Islam. “Our war is also your war,” Katz said. Israel cannot allow the Hezbollah terrorist organization to continue attacking its territory and citizens, and we will make the necessary decisions soon.
The free world must stand unconditionally with Israel in its war against the axis of evil led by Iran and extremist Islam. In Lebanon, his group would use its missiles and drones to strike targets throughout Israel’s territory. He warned that Hezbollah would launch a war attack with “no restrictions, no rules, and no ceilings.”
Nasrallah also issued a threat to Cyprus, which is a member of the European Union and is located in the eastern Mediterranean, west of the Lebanese and Israeli coasts. He said that the group has information indicating that Israel is conducting military manoeuvres in Cyprus in terrain similar to southern Lebanon.
Nasrallah added that Israel plans to use airports and bases in Cyprus for military purposes if its infrastructure is targeted during a dangerous war. He added, “Opening Cypriot airports and bases to the Israeli enemy to target Lebanon means that the Cypriot government has become part of the war, and the resistance will deal with it as part of the war,” without providing details.
Cyprus said that Nasrallah’s threat was baseless, stressing that the country enjoys great relations with Lebanon. However, Hezbollah’s statement exacerbated concerns about a larger regional war that could extend beyond Lebanon’s borders and draw groups allied with Iran – if not Tehran itself – as well as the United States into the conflict.
Hezbollah began the attack on Israel’s established military bases in northern Israel on the day after the outbreak of war in Gaza on October 7 in what it says is a “support front” to support Palestinian groups. Israel responded by bombing villages in southern Lebanon and Hezbollah positions.
While near-daily clashes have displaced tens of thousands of people in Lebanon and Israel, they have been largely contained in border areas. But violence has escalated in recent weeks, especially after an Israeli air strike killed a Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon last week.
On Friday, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for several military operations against Israel, including a drone attack that it said targeted Israeli forces at a coastal base on the western side of the border.
The United States has pushed for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis while expressing concern about Hezbollah attacks. “We have made very clear that we do not want to see an escalation of this conflict,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters on Thursday. For its part, Hezbollah said that it will continue its operations against the Israeli army until Israel ends its war in Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of more than 37,000 Palestinians.
