7/10/2024–|Last updated: 10/7/202409:27 AM (Mecca time)
Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei said in a tweet in Hebrew that “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood set the Zionist entity back 70 years,” while the Iranian Revolutionary Guard confirmed that it is at the peak of readiness to respond to any Israeli strike.
Khamenei’s tweet coincides with the one-year anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, an operation launched by the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip against Israel at dawn on Saturday, October 7, 2023, and included a land, sea and air attack and the infiltration of the resistance into several settlements on the Gaza Strip.
A few days ago, Khamenei said in his Friday sermon that “the resistance in Gaza astonished the world, and the jihad of the men of Palestine and Lebanon set the usurping entity back 70 years,” considering that “the main factor of wars and insecurity in the region is the usurping Zionist entity.”
Khamenei added in the sermon – part of which he delivered in Arabic – that the Palestinian people have the full right to rise up against the occupier who wasted their lives, considering that no one has the right to criticize the Lebanese for supporting their Palestinian brothers by defending their land.
He stressed that the enemies will never achieve victory over the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Lebanese Hezbollah, stressing that the countries of the region are capable of achieving security and peace, but foreign interference is the problem.
Khamenei also said that the step taken by the Iranian armed forces to support Gaza a few days ago is legal and enjoys full legitimacy, stressing that Iran will do what is necessary with strength and decisiveness, and we will not be complacent and we will not rush.
For his part, the Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Hossein Salami, reassured the Iranian people that they are extremely prepared to respond to enemies and defend the country, and stressed that they will confront with all strength, firmness and decisiveness any evil moves by Israel.
Last Tuesday, Iran launched about 200 missiles in response to Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, and its massacres in Palestine and Lebanon, according to Iranian statements.
