Iran August 2024 Attack on Israel
Updated 2024-08-26
2024-08-26 Iran vows ‘definitive’ retaliation against Israel with chilling warning Iran has declared its response to the killing of a top Hamas official by Israel will be “definitive”, amid rising concerns over potential increased conflict in the Middle East.
Tehran has pointed the finger at Israel for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the political chief of Hamas, who was in Tehran in early August for the inauguration of Iran’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-vows-definitive-retaliation-against-israel-with-chilling-warning/ar-AA1prFwR?
2024-08-21 Iran built expectations about an attack on Israel. Now, its messaging is changing Almost three weeks after the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, the Iranian regime is trying to step down from its early claims it would carry out an attack on Israel in retaliation. The regime in Tehran has built up a lot of expectations regarding how it would attack Israel. Now it is trying to shift messaging.
This “time and place of our choosing” rhetoric is also common in Hezbollah talking points. Hezbollah has also said it would retaliate for the killing of a key commander in late July in Beirut. However, like Iran, it has toned down the rhetoric. What Hezbollah says now is that it has a right to respond and it is keeping the account open. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-built-expectations-about-an-attack-on-israel-now-its-messaging-is-changing/ar-AA1pbLDB?
2024-08-16 Muted response from UK and France after Israeli FM calls for retaliation to any Iran strike Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz raised eyebrows on Friday when he said Israel would expect international partners such as the United Kingdom and France to join Israel in responding to a potential strike from Iran, “not only in defense, but also in attacking significant targets in Iran.”
Both France and the UK, however, have downplayed such a prospect, with the UK emphasizing the need to break the “current destructive cycle of retaliatory violence” in the Middle East. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/muted-response-from-uk-and-france-after-israeli-fm-calls-for-retaliation-to-any-iran-strike/ar-AA1oWtO5?
2024-08-15 Iran rejects Israel plea as ‘catastrophic’ World War III looms Tensions are escalating in the Middle East as Iran remains unyielding, refusing to dismiss the prospect of striking back against Israel following allegations that Jerusalem is behind the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last month.
Iran’s refusal to ignore possible retaliation comes amid an already strained atmosphere; this follows after Israel was blamed by Tehran for the killing on Iranian territory, ratcheting up anxieties over potential conflict in a region already fraught with instability. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-rejects-israel-plea-as-catastrophic-world-war-iii-looms/ar-AA1oQoVc?
2024-08-14 What’s going on inside Iran as the world awaits retaliation against Israel? As the world waits for Iran’s next step abroad, the talk inside the Islamic Republic is not just of what a retaliatory strike against Israel would mean for the Middle East, but what it would mean for the country’s economy and freedoms.
The country’s newly installed president, Masoud Pezeshkian, was elected on a reformist platform last month and is most likely mulling the potential domestic ramifications of a spiraling conflict for a nation already reeling from years of crushing sanctions, as well as crackdowns on dissent after a wave of mass demonstrations in 2022 shook the foundations of the Islamic Republic.
But some in Tehran told NBC News that Iran could keep Israel on its toes without a major retaliation. “No attack needed,” Nima Hosseini, a government worker, said. “A response in kind and in due time is a better alternative. Of course keeping Israel on high alert via rhetoric and verbal threats can be a smart strategy this time around,” Hosseini, 50, said. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-s-going-on-inside-iran-as-the-world-awaits-retaliation-against-israel/ar-AA1oNR2P?
2024-08-13 Middle East Braces as Iran & Hezbollah Vow Retaliation for Israeli Assassinations Iran has rejected a call by France, Germany and the United Kingdom demanding it refrain from any retaliatory attacks over the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31. Tensions also remain high on Israel’s northern border as Lebanon-based Hezbollah vows to respond to the Israeli assassination of its senior military commander Fuad Shukr. On Friday, Israel continued its assassination campaign by killing a Hamas commander in the Lebanese city of Sidon. “It’s a very, very tense time here in Beirut, and in Lebanon more generally,” says Karim Makdisi, a professor of international politics at the American University of Beirut. He says the cycle of escalation across the region has a clear cause, which is Israel’s war on Gaza backed by the United States, and that ending the violence there will bring calm elsewhere. “Get a ceasefire, everything stops.” Democracy Now! is an independent global news hourhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrzAkEUwils
2024-08-12 Israel expects ‘large scale’ Iranian attack Israel is expecting a ‘large scale’ Iranian attack and Hezbollah has evacuated its Beirut headquarters in anticipation of an all-out war with Israel. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that Iran was making preparations for a large-scale military attack on Israel during a phone call on Sunday, Axios News reporter Barack Ravid wrote on X. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-expects-large-scale-iranian-attack/ar-AA1oELDf?
2024-08-12 Keir Starmer warns Iran to ‘refrain from attacking Israel’ The Prime Minister tonight urged the Iranian president to refrain from attacking Israel, amid warnings from the US that the country could launch a significant attack on Israel within days.
Speaking to Masoud Pezeshkian, Sir Keir Starmer warned of ‘a serious risk of miscalculation’, Downing Street said. A Number 10 spokeswoman said: ‘(The Prime Minister) called on Iran to refrain from attacking Israel, adding that war was not in anyone’s interests.’ Mr Pezeshkian, who has been in office for barely a month, is considered a reformist, but vowed to make Israel ‘regret’ an air strike on Tehran that killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/keir-starmer-warns-iran-to-refrain-from-attacking-israel/ar-AA1oGoPr?
2024-08-09 Iran vs Israel vs Hezbollah: Who makes the first move to war? | Trita Parsi | The Big Picture S5E2 What is the price tag for convincing Iran to back down?
The US is desperately trying to keep a lid on the heightened tensions in the Middle East, following Israel’s assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Hanieyeh in Iran’s capital, and the airstrike on a Beirut suburb that killed senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr.
Benjamin Netanyahu seems determined to escalate tensions with Iran to the brink of war, largely to keep himself in power.
Iran, meanwhile, has made it very clear that war is the last thing it wants. But after Israel’s attack on its embassy in April that pushed it to launch hundreds of retaliatory drones as a deterrent against further attacks, Iran finds itself again in the spotlight. What will it decide to do?
This week on The Big Picture Podcast, we sit down with political analyst Trita Parsi to talk about what each party really wants to achieve from a confrontation, and what it would take for Iran to save face without escalating into all out war. Paris was the founder and former president of the Iranian-American National Council and is currently the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
The frightening reality is – even if no one really wants a war – we may be just one tiny miscalculation away from a point of no return. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w923G8Fe58
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