Iran said that Israel had lost its deterrent power and that the strategic balance in the region had shifted to its detriment after the Lebanese group “Hezbollah” carried out attacks against Israel, reported Reuters, quoted by BTA.
The group fired hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel yesterday, and Tel Aviv said it carried out airstrikes in Lebanon with more than 100 fighter jets to deter a larger attack.
„Despite the comprehensive support of countries such as the United States, Israel cannot predict the time and place of a limited and managed resistance response. Israel has lost its power to deter”, wrote the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Nasser Khanani on the social network “X“.
Israel “now must defend itself within its occupied territories” and that “the strategic balance has undergone fundamental changes” to the detriment of Israel, he added.
Any further escalation of hostilities, which began alongside the Gaza war, risks igniting the region, involving Iran, which backs Hezbollah, and the United States, Israel's main ally, Reuters said. .
The leader of “Hezbollah“ Hassan Nasrallah said the shelling of the group, which was in retaliation for the killing of top commander Fuad Shukr last month, had gone “as planned”.