Hezbollah keeps shooting missiles, since Oct. 7, 2023, into Israel at Iran’s bidding. “Back-to-back deadly rocket attacks hit Israel: Projectiles from Lebanon crashed into an agricultural area in Metula, Israel’s northernmost town, killing four foreign workers and an Israeli farmer, local officials said Thursday. Hours later, the Israeli military reported another volley of some 25 rockets from Lebanon, striking an olive grove in a suburb of the northern Israeli port city of Haifa. That strike killed a 30-year-old man and 60-year-old woman while wounding two others, said Magen David Adom, Israel’s main emergency medical organization. Both Hezbollah and Hamas are backed by Iran, Israel’s regional adversary. Hezbollah did not immediately claim responsibility for Thursday’s rocket fire. Israel’s military said 90 projectiles were fired from Lebanon on Thursday. Hezbollah has been firing thousands of rockets, drones and missiles into Israel —and drawing fierce Israeli retaliatory strikes — over the past year since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack out of the Gaza Strip triggered Israel’s devastating war in the Palestinian enclave.” See “Rocket fire from Lebanon kills 7 in Israel as US officials try to push for cease-fires,” AP, 11-1-24.
Can Baghdad really reel in Iran’s proxies? ““Iraq trying to reel in Iran-backed groups to prevent confrontation with Israel,” Times of Israel, Reuters, 11-1-24.
“Iran adviser hints at expansion of missile range, nuclear doctrine review after Israel strikes,” Reuters, 11-1-24.
The world needs to again challenge, no condemn, Iran’s declaration. Forever it seems that the IRI has said they were not working toward nuclear weapons. And the Supreme Leader has repeatedly said he issued a fatwa (he has never displayed it) that it is against Shia Islam for Iran to have or use nuclear weapons. “Iran says it has the capacity to make nuclear weapons; supreme leader threatens U.S. and Israel,” NBC, 11-1-24. “Kamal Kharrazi, an adviser to Khamenei, said Iran has the capacity to produce nuclear weapons and is prepared to change its policies on using them if faced with an existential threat, as the the country engages in a high-stakes tit for tat with Israel. Kharrazi also said the country is likely to increase the range of its ballistic missiles. “If an existential threat arises, Iran will modify its nuclear doctrine. We have the capability to build weapons and have no issue in this regard,” Kharrazi told the Lebanese broadcaster Al Mayadeen on Friday. Kharrazi added that “the only thing currently prohibiting this is the leader’s fatwa.” Khamenei issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, against nuclear weapons in 2003.”
“Iran adviser hints at expansion of missile range, nuclear doctrine review after Israel strikes,” Reuters, 11-1-24.
The world needs to again challenge, no condemn, Iran’s declaration. Forever it seems that the IRI has said they were not working toward nuclear weapons. And the Supreme Leader has repeatedly said he issued a fatwa (he has never displayed it) that it is against Shia Islam for Iran to have or use nuclear weapons. “Iran says it has the capacity to make nuclear weapons; supreme leader threatens U.S. and Israel,” NBC, 11-1-24. “Kamal Kharrazi, an adviser to Khamenei, said Iran has the capacity to produce nuclear weapons and is prepared to change its policies on using them if faced with an existential threat, as the the country engages in a high-stakes tit for tat with Israel. Kharrazi also said the country is likely to increase the range of its ballistic missiles. “If an existential threat arises, Iran will modify its nuclear doctrine. We have the capability to build weapons and have no issue in this regard,” Kharrazi told the Lebanese broadcaster Al Mayadeen on Friday. Kharrazi added that “the only thing currently prohibiting this is the leader’s fatwa.” Khamenei issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, against nuclear weapons in 2003.”
