War in the Middle East: Iran ready to “defend its sovereignty”, a new response in preparation ?

Iran warned on Friday that it was “ready to defend its sovereignty” in the event of an attack by Israel. The state has, in fact, assured that it would respond to Iranian missile launches on October 1. For its part, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a strike on an Israeli military site.

The essentials

• Iran warned on Friday that it was “ready to to defend its sovereignty “in the event of an attack by Israel,” which has ensured that it will respond to Iranian missile strikes in early October. The country assures that it “seeks neither war nor escalation”, but will exercise its “inherent right to self-defense” if necessary.
• Hezbollah claimed responsibility on Friday for a strike against an Israeli military site “with a large salvo of rockets” in the Yiftah barracks and its surroundings. It claimed to have targeted “technical equipment on a crane in Abbad with a guided missile.”
• A stronghold of Hezbollah, the southern suburbs of Beirut are usually targeted by the Israeli army. On Thursday evening, Israeli raids targeted the Lebanese capital, leaving 22 dead and 117 injured.
• Two UN peacekeepers were also “targeted” by “shots at positions” from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the UNIFIL spokesperson told AFP. A maneuver deemed “irresponsible, unacceptable” by the President of the European Council Charles Michel this Friday.

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14:34 – French people evacuated from Lebanon

Yesterday evening, a Belgian military plane repatriated around a hundred European nationals from Lebanon. Among them were eleven French nationals, but also 58 Belgians, 41 Dutch and one Luxembourger, it was revealed on Friday at Agence France-Presse the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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12:39 – Hezbollah claims attack on military base

Lebanese Hezbollah announced on Friday that it had attacked a military base in Haifa, Israel, with drones. The group said in a statement that it had “launched a squadron of attack drones on an air base in Haifa”.

11:40 – Shootings of UN peacekeepers cause outcry international

On Thursday, two Indonesian peacekeepers, a United Nations peacekeeping force, came under Israeli fire in the UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura, southern Lebanon. The shooting caused a diplomatic outcry. “An attack on a United Nations peacekeeping mission is irresponsible, unacceptable, and that is why we call on Israel and all parties to fully respect international humanitarian law,” reacted the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, this Friday. The same tone was taken by Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations: “I condemn the fact that there was shooting at a United Nations site, injuring two peacekeepers, which constitutes a violation of international humanitarian law.” It would not be over: the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs pointed out pointing to new Israeli shots on a Sri Lankan blue helmet position in southern Lebanon this Friday. 

11:10 – New Hezbollah strike

This Friday, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a new strike targeting an Israeli military site “with a large salvo of rockets”. It targeted “the Yiftah barracks and its surroundings” and particularly “technical equipment on a crane in Abbad with a guided missile”. Hezbollah assured that it had hit its target.

Iran warned this Friday, assuring that the country was “ready to to defend its sovereignty” if Israel were to attack. Iran “is fully prepared to defend its sovereignty and integrity “Tehran is “protecting its territorial integrity against any aggression targeting its vital interests and security,” declared Amir Saeid Iravani, representative of the Islamic Republic to the United Nations, during a Security Council meeting, reports Le Monde. He explained that Tehran “seeks neither war nor escalation” but will not hesitate if necessary to use its “inherent right to self-defense”. Israel has, in fact, promised to retaliate to the Iranian missile attacks of October 1, which sounded like a response to the assassination of the Palestinian Hamas leader in Tehran and the Lebanese Hezbollah leader, attributed to Israel.