Yesterday, Saturday, American media reported that the United States and Israel are on alert, following Iran’s pledge to respond to the killing of a number of Revolutionary Guard leaders in an Israeli raid on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, at a time when tension continues in southern Lebanon with exchanges of bombing along the border between… The Israeli army and Hezbollah.
Bloomberg news website reported that Iran sent a written message to the United States, warning it not to be drawn into the trap of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, and demanding that it step aside while it prepares to respond to Israel’s attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
The website quoted Mohammad Jamshidi, Deputy Head of the Iranian President’s Office for Political Affairs, as saying, “Iran wrote to America asking it to step aside,” indicating that the United States asked Tehran not to strike American targets. The United States did not comment on the alleged message sent by Iran.
CNN quoted a senior US administration official as saying that his country “is on high alert and is actively preparing for a major attack by Iran during the next week in response to the consulate raid in Damascus.”
The official added that senior American officials currently believe that an attack by Iran is “inevitable,” a view shared by their Israeli counterparts, and the two governments are working hard to prepare for what is coming, as they anticipate that the Iranian attack may unfold in several different ways.
Meanwhile, Iran continued its threats to respond to the attack attributed to Israel on the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus. Iranian Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri said that the Israeli attack that resulted in the killing of the commander of the Revolutionary Guard forces in Syria and Lebanon, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, and 6 others, “will not remain without a response,” adding: “We are the ones who will precisely determine the timing and type of the operation. “With maximum damage.”
In addition, the Lebanese Hezbollah announced, yesterday, Saturday, that it had targeted 9 Israeli military sites off the Lebanese border and in the occupied Golan, while the Israeli army announced the interception of 5 missiles launched from southern Lebanon at the occupied Shebaa Farms, while sirens sounded in the Upper Galilee. .
The party said that its fighters bombed with Katyusha rockets the Zaoura camp in the occupied Golan, and targeted gatherings of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Ramia site and the Shumira and Shtoula barracks. The party also said that it attacked with a drone the drone jamming system in the Al-Asi site and achieved a direct hit.