Iran asserted its right to defend itself after strikes on its military sites carried out by Israel on Saturday, the latest episode of hostilities between the two enemy countries which has sparked calls for restraint in the face of the risk of military escalation in the Middle East. After this Israeli attack, Tehran reported “limited damage” and four soldiers killed. Israel then threatened Iran to “pay a high price” if it retaliated.
Information to remember
⇒ We must “neither exaggerate nor minimize” Israel’s attack, assures Ayatollah Khamenei
⇒ New Israeli raid on the southern suburbs of Beirut
⇒ Israeli strikes in Iran: “I hope this is the end,” says Biden
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“Neither exaggerate nor minimize” Israel’s attack, says Ayatollah Khamenei
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei indicated this Sunday, October 27, that Israeli strikes against Iranian military sites should be “neither exaggerated nor minimized” on the night of Friday to Saturday. “The harm done by the Zionist regime two nights ago must neither be exaggerated nor minimized,” the Iranian supreme leader said on the social network X, in his first reaction to the Israeli attack.
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New Israeli raid on the southern suburbs of Beirut
The Lebanese national news agency Ani reported early Sunday an Israeli raid on the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold. Shortly before, the Israeli army had called on residents of two neighborhoods in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital to evacuate their homes, claiming that there were “facilities and sites affiliated with Hezbollah”.
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Israeli strikes in Iran: “I hope this is the end,” says Biden
Joe Biden said this Saturday that he hoped that this would be “the end”, after the airstrikes carried out during the night from Friday to Saturday by Israel against military installations in Iran. “I was with the intelligence services […]. It looks like they (the Israelis) didn’t hit anything other than military targets. I hope this is the end,” the US president told reporters.
For his part, Israeli President Isaac Herzog praised the United States, “a true ally”, and the “public and secret” cooperation between the two countries after the Israeli strikes on Iran, he said in a message on X.
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Iran says its determination to defend itself ‘has no limits’
Iran’s determination to defend itself “has no limits”, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs declared this Saturday, after nighttime Israeli strikes against military sites in the country. “I think we have proven that there are no limits to our determination to defend ourselves,” said Abbas Araghchi, during an interview with the Iranian Supreme Leader’s website.
“Iran considers that it has the right and duty to defend itself against foreign acts of aggression, based on the inherent right of self-defense contained in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter,” says a press release from Iranian diplomacy.
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Situation in northern Gaza Strip ‘catastrophic’: WHO
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Saturday that the situation was “catastrophic” in the war-ravaged northern Gaza Strip, with “intensive military operations taking place in and around the establishments health”.
“The situation in northern Gaza is catastrophic,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on
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UN chief ‘deeply concerned’ about escalation in Middle East
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is “deeply concerned about the continued escalation in the Middle East” after Israeli strikes in Iran, his spokesperson said in a statement this Saturday. “The Secretary-General urgently reiterates his call on all parties to cease all military actions, including in Gaza and Lebanon, make all possible efforts to prevent all-out regional war and return to the path of diplomacy,” he added.