Yeah, if you're not picky about quality and if duplicates are okay...
Posted on 10/14/2023 4:07:09 PM PDT by libh8er
BEIRUT — Iran’s foreign minister on Saturday called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, warning that the war might expand to other parts of the Middle East if Hezbollah joins the battle, and that would make Israel suffer “a huge earthquake.”
Hossein Amirabdollahian told reporters in Beirut that Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group has taken all war scenarios into consideration and Israel should stop its attacks on Gaza as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, the Axios news site reported that Tehran has sent Jerusalem a message through the UN that it will intervene if the campaign in Gaza continues, and particularly if it launches a ground offensive. The report cited two diplomatic sources with knowledge of the matter.
The report said Amirabdollahian made the comments when he met Saturday with UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland in Beirut, a meeting that led to intense criticism from Israel.
Israel considers Hezbollah its most serious immediate threat, estimating it has some 150,000 rockets and missiles, including precision-guided missiles that can hit anywhere in Israel. The group, which has thousands of battle-hardened fighters who participated in Syria’s 12-year conflict, also has various types of military drones.
Hezbollah fighters have been on full alert along Lebanon’s borders with Israel following last Saturday’s vicious assault by the Palestinian terror group Hamas that left some 1,300 Israeli civilians and soldiers dead, and saw up to 200 abducted to Gaza.
On Saturday, the Israeli military said an Israeli drone strike along the border with Lebanon eliminated a terror cell that was trying to infiltrate into Israel. On Friday, Hezbollah said its fighters fired several rockets at four Israel positions along the border.
On Saturday afternoon, Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets and shells at Israeli positions in the disputed Mount Dov area, which Lebanon calls Sheba Farms. Israeli troops fired back on nearby areas in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s state news agency reported that a man and his wife were killed in Israeli shelling of a border village, while Hezbollah said one of its fighters was also killed Saturday.
Amirabdollahian discussed in Beirut on Saturday the situation in Gaza and the region with the top Hamas official in exile, Saleh Arouri, and the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, Ziad Nakhaleh, according to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV.
Hamas officials have said that last Saturday’s attack on southern Israel was not directed by Iran, though the sides closely cooperate and Tehran provides funds and military know-how to Hamas. Hamas officials did not respond to calls by The Associated Press to confirm and give details about the meeting.
Amirabdollahian left Beirut on Saturday afternoon following a tour that took him to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, where Tehran enjoys wide influence.
Amirabdollahian said he met Friday with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who briefed him on the group’s conditions in Lebanon.
“I know about the scenarios that Hezbollah has put in place,” Amirabdollahian said. “Any step the resistance (Hezbollah) will take will cause a huge earthquake in the Zionist entity.”
Amirabdollahian added: “I want to warn the war criminals and those who support this entity before it’s too late to stop the crimes against civilians in Gaza, because it might be too late in a few hours.”
With an eye toward Hezbollah, US President Joe Biden has warned other players in the Middle East not to join the conflict and has sent American warships to the region and vowed full support for Israel.
The Iranian foreign minister said he will be contacting UN officials in the Middle East because “there is still an opportunity to work on an initiative [to end the war] but it might be too late tomorrow.”
The possibility of a new front in Lebanon brings back bitter memories of a monthlong war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006 that ended in a stalemate and a tense detente between the two sides.
Really if Israel doesn’t do something to get rid of these guys the eventuality is those guys will get rid of Israel.
Imagine the terrorists’ surprise when they arrive in Hell ... and discover that Satan has a somewhat dark sense of humor. Stuck with 72 “virgins” that are all clones of the same old hag .... for all eternity. Seems fitting. I recall the Star Trek episode where Harcourt Fenton Mudd ends up in his own private hell of a similar nature.
Sounds like Iran is about to give Israel just the excuse they need to end the nuke
project in Iran
Yeah
“BEIRUT — Iran’s foreign minister on Saturday called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, warning that the war might expand to other parts of the Middle East if Hezbollah joins the battle, and that would make Israel suffer “a huge earthquake.”
Hizbollah already breached the border yesterday, blowing a hole in the fence. IDF struck back hard with artillery and missiles. I could hear the missiles launching.
Iran: UN tell Israel that we asked it to stop winning.
UN: Iran has asked you to stop.
Israel: US tell the UN to tell Iran that Israel is really busy and will not stop winning.
Actually, my point was more towards Iran using the war as a pretext to test a nuclear weapon design, not unlike North Korea did, which would account for an “earthquake”, and would announce to the world that Iran is now a nuclear power.
Currently, if Iran is insane enough to attack Israel in any way, all bets are off on what comes next.
The mullahs and Revolutionary Guards are no better than Nazis. One way to subdue them is to crush them. Whether we crush them or not, when will the people of the World learn that haters are haters, that killers are killers, that these people say exactly what they mean? Do we have to risk a World-wide conflict like we did in World War II? Or will we wake up to the threat to life and treat it as it deserves to be treated?
The mullahs and Revolutionary Guards are no better than Nazis. One way to subdue them is to crush them. Whether we crush them or not, when will the people of the World learn that haters are haters, that killers are killers, that these people say exactly what they mean? Do we have to risk a World-wide conflict like we did in World War II? Or will we wake up to the threat to life and treat it as it deserves to be treated?
I can only hope that “huge earthquake” is Tehran being turned into a glass parking lot.
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