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2024-08-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Nasrallah says Hezbollah, Iran 'obliged to respond' to Israel after Haniyeh, Shukr killings
[ARABNEWS] Hezbollah’s chief said Tuesday his group and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
were "obliged to respond" to Israel "whatever the consequences" after the killings last week of Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr and Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
.

The twin killings have sent Middle East tensions skyrocketing, amid fears of a regional conflict and all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah, which have been trading daily cross-border fire since Paleostinian Death Eater group Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.

Iran "finds itself obliged to respond, and the enemy is waiting in a great state of dread," His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
said in a televised address, adding his group was also "obliged to respond."

Hezbollah will retaliate "alone or in the context of a unified response from all the axis" of Iran-backed groups in the region, "whatever the consequences," he added.

An Israeli air strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs killed Hezbollah’s top military commander Shukr last Tuesday.

Early Wednesday, Hamas’s political chief Haniyeh was killed in an attack in Tehran blamed on Israel, which has not commented directly on the killing.

"Our response is coming," Nasrallah said in an address to mark a week since Shukr’s killing, adding it would be "strong and effective."

"Israel’s waiting for a week is part of the punishment, part of the response, part of the battle," he said, adding: "It is Israel who chose escalation... and who attacked Iran."
Posted by Fred 2024-08-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11154 views ]  Top
 File under: Hezbollah 

#1 Nasrallah, speaking from his bunker, says Hezbollah, Iran 'obliged to respond' to Israel after Haniyeh, Shukr killings
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-07 01:32||   2024-08-07 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Nasrallah, speaking from his bunker miles beneath the city, says Hezbollah, Iran 'obliged to respond' to Israel after Haniyeh, Shukr killings
Posted by Fred 2024-08-07 02:37||   2024-08-07 02:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Article 51
Posted by Gloluns Turkeyneck4904 2024-08-07 08:22||   2024-08-07 08:22|| Front Page Top

#4 I suspect there is a lot of dissension in Iran on how to respond. Otherwise they would have done so already.

As far as Hezbollah, they would wait until Iran responds.

In the meantime, every day they wait is something of a humiliation.
Posted by Lord Garth  2024-08-07 10:48||   2024-08-07 10:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Every hour they delay response is another hour of Israeli pilots and ground crew being on hot standby with the clock ticking on maintenance checks, etc. They will never be blasé but eventually their edge will dull. Plus it takes a few days for the new Murmansk units to be calibrated and function checked offline
Posted by Gloluns Turkeyneck4904 2024-08-07 15:30||   2024-08-07 15:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Murkmansk units?
Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-07 20:59||   2024-08-07 20:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Murmansk BN jamming units
Posted by Griter+Slash1619 2024-08-07 21:03||   2024-08-07 21:03|| Front Page Top

#8 That means Russians, right? Remember, my dear, that I’m about as ignorant about things military as a little civilian housewife from the Midwestern suburbs can get. Thank you in advance for explaining things so that I can catch up to you non-ignorant types. :-)
Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-07 21:08||   2024-08-07 21:08|| Front Page Top

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