Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced Friday they had launched a combined missile and drone offensive against Israel, conducted jointly with Tehran-backed Hezbollah.
The joint offensive marks yet another chapter in the rapidly escalating confrontation between Israel and the Iran-Hezbollah axis © INPD
Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced Friday they had launched a combined missile and drone offensive against Israel, conducted jointly with Tehran-backed Hezbollah.
The Guards stated in an official communiqué that the operation was launched in the framework of this symbolic occasion , which took on a particularly charged dimension Friday morning after an Israeli airstrike near Tehran hit close to the route of a pro-regime rally, disrupting what was meant to be a show of defiance by the Islamic Republic's supporters.
The joint offensive marks yet another chapter in the rapidly escalating confrontation between Israel and the Iran-Hezbollah axis, as Tehran seeks to demonstrate that despite the devastating losses inflicted by Operation Epic Fury , the US-Israeli strikes launched on February 28, it retains the capacity and the will to strike back.
By framing the attack within the "Day of Support for Palestinians," the Revolutionary Guards are attempting to wrap a military operation in ideological legitimacy, even as Iran's own capital comes under Israeli fire and its supreme leader lies dead.
The message from Tehran is clear: the war goes on. Israel's response is likely to be equally unambiguous.
Israel has rebuffed a historic offer of direct talks from Lebanon, deeming it too little too late from a government that shares its goal of disarming Hezbollah but cannot act against the heavily armed Lebanese group without risking a civil war.
A French soldier was killed and six others wounded Thursday evening in a drone attack in the Erbil region of Iraqi Kurdistan, marking the first French military death since the outbreak of the Middle East war.
Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is wounded and likely disfigured, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday, questioning Khamenei's ability to govern after nearly two weeks of U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.
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