Politics USA: Iran prepares missile attack against Israel
According to media reports, the US government assumes that Iran is preparing an "imminent" missile attack on Israel. According to US media reports, there are indications of this in a statement from a government representative.
Such a direct attack would have serious consequences for Iran. "We are actively supporting defense preparations to protect Israel against this attack," the government representative was quoted as saying.
Israel had recently considerably weakened Iran's allies in the region. At the end of July, for example, the foreign head of the Islamist Hamas was killed in Tehran. Iran's leadership then vowed revenge. Last Friday, Hassan Nasrallah, head of the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah, another key ally of Tehran, was killed. Since then, it has been unclear whether and how Iran's military leadership will react.
Back in April, Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) carried out a direct attack on Israel for the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic. The IRGC air force fired more than 300 drones, missiles and cruise missiles at its arch-enemy. The attack was successfully repelled. This was Iran's response to the killing of high-ranking generals who had been killed in a suspected Israeli attack in Syria.
Since the 1979 revolution, the USA and Israel have been considered arch-enemies of the Islamic Republic. With the outbreak of the Gaza war just under a year ago, there were several threats that the shadow conflict would develop into a conflagration. Iran's Revolutionary Guards are the country's elite fighting force and are considered to be significantly more powerful than the regular army.
On Tuesday, Israeli ground troops entered Lebanon for the first time in almost two decades. Around a year after the start of the Gaza war, the focus of the fighting is thus shifting towards the northern neighboring country. The army spoke of "limited" attacks near the border on targets of the Shiite Hezbollah, which is closely allied with Iran.
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