Iran’s Raisi has issued a strong warning to Israel against any violent action
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Roshan Amiri
- . April 18, 2022
- . Update: April 19, 2022 1:23 pm
Iran–Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Monday that if Israel took action against the Islamic republic, the armed forces would not rest. “You must understand that if you try to take any action against the Iranian nation… our armed forces will not leave you in peace,” Raisi declared at a military parade commemorating National Army Day. His remarks came only days after he urged Iraq not to use its land for operations that might jeopardize Iran’s security.
Last month, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the military’s ideological wing, said Israel was using a dozen ballistic missiles launched at a “strategic” point in Irbil, Iraq’s autonomous northern Kurdistan region’s city. The presence of Israeli installations in and around Irbil, on the other hand, was disputed by Irbil governor Oumid Khouchnaw as “baseless.” He remarked at the time, “There are no Israeli sites in the region.”
Last month, Israel sponsored meetings in which senior Arab diplomats and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken participated, with Israel claiming that the conference would send a strong message to Tehran. “This new architecture, the joint capabilities we’re constructing, intimidates and deters our mutual enemies,” Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said at the close of the summit in southern Israel.
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