Iranian Official Signals Imminent Retaliation for Israeli Strike on Beirut
An Iranian official is signalling that a military response to today’s Israeli strike on Dahieh is imminent, and may come as early as tonight.
Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesperson for Iran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, has issued a direct warning on X stating: “We will deliver a decisive and painful response to the Zionist regime’s attack on Dahiyeh. Look at the sky over the occupied lands tonight.”
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has convened an emergency session, held in limited format with pre-planned instructions already issued, based on the principle of “unity of the Resistance fronts.” This is not a reactive deliberation. This implies a contingency plan was already in place in case of an Israeli assault on Beirut.
Iranian hacker group Handala has meanwhile warned residents of northern Israel to evacuate immediately, claiming target coordinates have been transferred to “missile units of the resistance front.”
This is consistent with Iran’s prior warning, issued when Israel first threatened Dahieh last week, that northern Israel would need to be evacuated to make way for Iranian strikes. Israel pulled back then. It did not pull back today.
Whether Iran follows through, we are likely about to find out.
This is a developing story.