Regional States React to Latest Aggression:
Zionist Regime Drawing Last Breaths
TEHRAN (Dispatches) – The Iranian government on Monday blast a series of recent attacks by the occupying regime of Israeli in a number of countries, saying Tel Aviv will pay "a high price” for its acts of aggression.
"During the past month, the Zionist regime became so outrageous as to take pride in its acts of aggression, though in an untrue and exaggerated manner,” Government spokesman Ali Rabiei told a news conference here.
"Repeated acts of aggression against Iraq are black stains on track records of this regime and we condemn any aggression against sovereignty of regional countries. Israel will pay a high price for its actions,” he said.
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday warned Zionist troops stationed along the Lebanese border that the Lebanese national resistance was preparing an imminent response to two Israeli drones that crashed overnight in a suburb of Beirut.
"We are in a new stage," Nasrallah said in a televised speech, referring to the movement long struggle against the Zionist regime.
He said the "suicide drone" attack by the occupying regime was intended for a specific target and was a "very, very, very dangerous development" and that everything possible would be done to prevent a repeat.
Nasrallah's comments also followed overnight strikes claimed by Israel that he said martyred two Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in Syria. Nasrallah said the site hit was a resting place, not a military facility.
In Lebanon, one drone fell and a second exploded before dawn near the ground and caused some damage to Hezbollah's media centre in the southern suburbs of the capital, a Hezbollah official told Reuters.
Nasrallah said it marked "the first clear, big, dangerous, breach of the rules of engagement drawn up in 2006" after the end of the conflict with the occupying regime of Israel.
He said it violated a UN Security Council resolution ending the 33-day war, which martyred 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and killed 160 Zionists, almost all soldiers.
"We will not allow the clock to be turned back. We will not allow Lebanon to be violated by bombardment, killing or explosions, nor the violation of sanctities. This for us is a red line," Nasrallah said.
Nasrallah said it was the first Israeli attack inside Lebanon since 2006. "I say to the Israeli army along the border, from tonight be ready and wait for us," he said. "What happened yesterday will not pass."
Addressing Zionists, he said: "Do not live, do not rest, do not be reassured, and do not bet for a single moment that Hezbollah will allow... aggression of this kind."
Earlier, Lebanon's President Michel Aoun said the drone incursion targeted "stability and peace in Lebanon and the region". Prime Minister Saad Hariri said the incident was "a threat to regional stability".
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo later Sunday called on Hariri to stress the "necessity to avoid any escalation", the premier's office said.
Since the beginning of Syria's war in 2011, the occupying regime of Israel has conducted hundreds of strikes in the Arabia country, in an apparent bid to prop up terrorists who are on their last legs.
Iraq Launches Probe
In Iraq, the military said it has launched an investigation into an Israeli strike that killed a paramilitary anti-terror fighter.
Sunday’s attack struck a position held by Brigade 45, a Hashd al-Sha’abi unit based near Iraq’s arid western border with Syria, killing one fighter and severely wounding a second.
"An investigation is ongoing now to determine what happened with the strike,” Iraq’s military spokesman Yehya Rasool told AFP.
The Hashd al-Sha’abi, a powerful paramilitary force that fights alongside Iraq’s military, said two Israeli drones had targeted the Brigade 45 position near Al-Qaim, about 15 kilometers (10 miles) from the border, with U.S. air cover.
The attack killed Kazem Mohsen, Brigade 45’s "logistical support chief” who was also known by his nom de guerre Abu Ali al-Dabi.
Hundreds mourned at a funeral procession for Mohsen in Baghdad on Monday morning, including Ahmad al-Assadi, a member of parliament and spokesman for the Hashd’s parliamentary bloc "Fatah.”
"We will work in the coming days to hold an emergency parliamentary meeting to discuss this issue and take the appropriate decisions,” he said in a video published by the Hashd.
Sunday’s attack is the sixth in a string of blasts and drone sightings at Hashd bases across Iraq since mid-July, for which no one has claimed responsibility.
The Iraqi government has carried out investigations into some of those incidents, blaming an unidentified drone for at least one and saying another was a "premeditated” act.
The foreign ministry said it would wait for official conclusions before taking action at the United Nations.
"If it was proven that a foreign entity was involved in these operations, we will take all steps — first among them, going to the Security Council and the United Nations,” spokesman Ahmad Sahhaf said.
Hashd deputy chief Abu Mehdi al-Muhandis unequivocally blamed the U.S. last week for what he described as an attack by Israeli drones.
The Fatah Coalition in Iraq’s parliament said it holds the United States fully responsible for the Israeli aggression, "which we consider to be a declaration of war on Iraq and its people."
The coalition is a parliament bloc representing paramilitary militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces.
The U.S. maintains about 5,000 troops in Iraq, and some groups say there's no longer a justification for them to be there now that Daesh has been defeated.
"While we reserve the right to respond to these Zionist attacks, we hold the international coalition, particularly the United States, fully responsible for this aggression which we consider a declaration of war on Iraq and its people," the statement by the Fatah Coalition said.
Iraqi President Barham Saleh hosted a meeting later Monday that included the prime minister and parliament speaker as well as PMF militia leaders to discuss the recent attacks.
In Tehran, Rabiei said Iran will support the Iraqi, Syrian and Lebanese peoples' right to self-defense.
The chief of Iran's Quds force, General Qassem Soleimani tweeted on Sunday that "these were the last struggles" of the occupying regime of Israel.
Soleimani posted pictures of himself on Twitter with the caption: "These insane operations are absolutely last struggles of the Zionist Regime" in Persian, Arabic and English.
"During the past month, the Zionist regime became so outrageous as to take pride in its acts of aggression, though in an untrue and exaggerated manner,” Government spokesman Ali Rabiei told a news conference here.
"Repeated acts of aggression against Iraq are black stains on track records of this regime and we condemn any aggression against sovereignty of regional countries. Israel will pay a high price for its actions,” he said.
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday warned Zionist troops stationed along the Lebanese border that the Lebanese national resistance was preparing an imminent response to two Israeli drones that crashed overnight in a suburb of Beirut.
"We are in a new stage," Nasrallah said in a televised speech, referring to the movement long struggle against the Zionist regime.
He said the "suicide drone" attack by the occupying regime was intended for a specific target and was a "very, very, very dangerous development" and that everything possible would be done to prevent a repeat.
Nasrallah's comments also followed overnight strikes claimed by Israel that he said martyred two Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in Syria. Nasrallah said the site hit was a resting place, not a military facility.
In Lebanon, one drone fell and a second exploded before dawn near the ground and caused some damage to Hezbollah's media centre in the southern suburbs of the capital, a Hezbollah official told Reuters.
Nasrallah said it marked "the first clear, big, dangerous, breach of the rules of engagement drawn up in 2006" after the end of the conflict with the occupying regime of Israel.
He said it violated a UN Security Council resolution ending the 33-day war, which martyred 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and killed 160 Zionists, almost all soldiers.
"We will not allow the clock to be turned back. We will not allow Lebanon to be violated by bombardment, killing or explosions, nor the violation of sanctities. This for us is a red line," Nasrallah said.
Nasrallah said it was the first Israeli attack inside Lebanon since 2006. "I say to the Israeli army along the border, from tonight be ready and wait for us," he said. "What happened yesterday will not pass."
Addressing Zionists, he said: "Do not live, do not rest, do not be reassured, and do not bet for a single moment that Hezbollah will allow... aggression of this kind."
Earlier, Lebanon's President Michel Aoun said the drone incursion targeted "stability and peace in Lebanon and the region". Prime Minister Saad Hariri said the incident was "a threat to regional stability".
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo later Sunday called on Hariri to stress the "necessity to avoid any escalation", the premier's office said.
Since the beginning of Syria's war in 2011, the occupying regime of Israel has conducted hundreds of strikes in the Arabia country, in an apparent bid to prop up terrorists who are on their last legs.
Iraq Launches Probe
In Iraq, the military said it has launched an investigation into an Israeli strike that killed a paramilitary anti-terror fighter.
Sunday’s attack struck a position held by Brigade 45, a Hashd al-Sha’abi unit based near Iraq’s arid western border with Syria, killing one fighter and severely wounding a second.
"An investigation is ongoing now to determine what happened with the strike,” Iraq’s military spokesman Yehya Rasool told AFP.
The Hashd al-Sha’abi, a powerful paramilitary force that fights alongside Iraq’s military, said two Israeli drones had targeted the Brigade 45 position near Al-Qaim, about 15 kilometers (10 miles) from the border, with U.S. air cover.
The attack killed Kazem Mohsen, Brigade 45’s "logistical support chief” who was also known by his nom de guerre Abu Ali al-Dabi.
Hundreds mourned at a funeral procession for Mohsen in Baghdad on Monday morning, including Ahmad al-Assadi, a member of parliament and spokesman for the Hashd’s parliamentary bloc "Fatah.”
"We will work in the coming days to hold an emergency parliamentary meeting to discuss this issue and take the appropriate decisions,” he said in a video published by the Hashd.
Sunday’s attack is the sixth in a string of blasts and drone sightings at Hashd bases across Iraq since mid-July, for which no one has claimed responsibility.
The Iraqi government has carried out investigations into some of those incidents, blaming an unidentified drone for at least one and saying another was a "premeditated” act.
The foreign ministry said it would wait for official conclusions before taking action at the United Nations.
"If it was proven that a foreign entity was involved in these operations, we will take all steps — first among them, going to the Security Council and the United Nations,” spokesman Ahmad Sahhaf said.
Hashd deputy chief Abu Mehdi al-Muhandis unequivocally blamed the U.S. last week for what he described as an attack by Israeli drones.
The Fatah Coalition in Iraq’s parliament said it holds the United States fully responsible for the Israeli aggression, "which we consider to be a declaration of war on Iraq and its people."
The coalition is a parliament bloc representing paramilitary militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces.
The U.S. maintains about 5,000 troops in Iraq, and some groups say there's no longer a justification for them to be there now that Daesh has been defeated.
"While we reserve the right to respond to these Zionist attacks, we hold the international coalition, particularly the United States, fully responsible for this aggression which we consider a declaration of war on Iraq and its people," the statement by the Fatah Coalition said.
Iraqi President Barham Saleh hosted a meeting later Monday that included the prime minister and parliament speaker as well as PMF militia leaders to discuss the recent attacks.
In Tehran, Rabiei said Iran will support the Iraqi, Syrian and Lebanese peoples' right to self-defense.
The chief of Iran's Quds force, General Qassem Soleimani tweeted on Sunday that "these were the last struggles" of the occupying regime of Israel.
Soleimani posted pictures of himself on Twitter with the caption: "These insane operations are absolutely last struggles of the Zionist Regime" in Persian, Arabic and English.