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Hezbollah keeps shooting missiles, since Oct. 7, 2023, into Israel at Iran\u2019s bidding.\u00a0 \u201cBack-to-back deadly rocket attacks hit Israel: Projectiles from Lebanon crashed into an agricultural area in Metula, Israel\u2019s 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\u2019s main emergency medical organization. Both Hezbollah and Hamas are backed by Iran, Israel\u2019s regional adversary. Hezbollah did not immediately claim responsibility for Thursday\u2019s rocket fire. Israel\u2019s military said 90 projectiles were fired from Lebanon on Thursday. Hezbollah has been firing thousands of rockets, drones and missiles into Israel \u2014and drawing fierce Israeli retaliatory strikes \u2014 over the past year since Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, attack out of the Gaza Strip triggered Israel\u2019s devastating war in the Palestinian enclave.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cRocket fire from Lebanon kills 7 in Israel as US officials try to push for cease-fires,\u201d<\/a> AP, 11-1-24.<\/p>\n

Can Baghdad really reel in Iran\u2019s proxies?\u00a0 \u201c\u201cIraq trying to reel in Iran-backed groups to prevent confrontation with Israel,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, Reuters, 11-1-24.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran adviser hints at expansion of missile range, nuclear doctrine review after Israel strikes,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 11-1-24.<\/p>\n

The world needs to again challenge, no condemn, Iran\u2019s declaration.\u00a0 Forever it seems that the IRI has said they were not working toward nuclear weapons.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 \u201cIran says it has the capacity to make nuclear weapons; supreme leader threatens U.S. and Israel,\u201d<\/a> NBC, 11-1-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cKamal 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.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIf an existential threat arises, Iran will modify its nuclear doctrine. We have the capability to build weapons and have no issue in this regard,\u201d Kharrazi told the Lebanese broadcaster Al Mayadeen on Friday. Kharrazi added that \u201cthe only thing currently prohibiting this is the leader\u2019s fatwa.\u201d Khamenei issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, against nuclear weapons in 2003.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIran adviser hints at expansion of missile range, nuclear doctrine review after Israel strikes,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 11-1-24.<\/p>\n

The world needs to again challenge, no condemn, Iran\u2019s declaration.\u00a0 Forever it seems that the IRI has said they were not working toward nuclear weapons.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 \u201cIran says it has the capacity to make nuclear weapons; supreme leader threatens U.S. and Israel,\u201d<\/a> NBC, 11-1-24.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cKamal 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.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIf an existential threat arises, Iran will modify its nuclear doctrine. We have the capability to build weapons and have no issue in this regard,\u201d Kharrazi told the Lebanese broadcaster Al Mayadeen on Friday. Kharrazi added that \u201cthe only thing currently prohibiting this is the leader\u2019s fatwa.\u201d Khamenei issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, against nuclear weapons in 2003.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hezbollah keeps shooting missiles, since Oct. 7, 2023, into Israel at Iran\u2019s bidding.\u00a0 \u201cBack-to-back deadly rocket attacks hit Israel: Projectiles from Lebanon crashed into an agricultural area in Metula, Israel\u2019s 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 … <\/p>\n

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