Head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, on August 7 vowed a “suitable and proportionate” response to any Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon.
Sources confirmed to The Wire that the US had been the only country to object to issuing a press statement, as the Chinese foreign ministry had claimed last week.
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Even as the details of of the most violent air-raids in Syria carried out by Israel targeting Iranian assets are still emerging, there are speculations rife that suggest that an all-out covert war may just have been launched against Iran.
The most suggestive of this has been the timing of the air-raids, the blackouts in Iran and the statement of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling Iran the new home base of Al Qaeda.
Israel airstrike targets Iranian assets in Syria
Screengrab Al-Qaeda has a new home base. It is the Islamic Republic of Iran, Pompeo said in a speech at the National Press Club.