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Our response will be unimaginable."
Hossein Salami, for example, said
Their supplies are now set, which should affect their calculus,
the security official said of Iran's potential retaliation against Israel
Israel believed it could change the regional balance of power by launching a few missiles,
Salami said
The supreme objective that I have set for the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] and the security services is to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons … We have not taken – and we will not take – our eyes off this objective. Obviously, I cannot detail our plans to achieve this supreme goal.”
The Israeli prime minister said
Regarding Iran, we struck its soft underbelly.” ... The haughty words of the Iranian regime’s leaders cannot cover up the fact that in Iran today, Israel has greater freedom of action than ever before. We can go anywhere that we need to in Iran.”
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said at a graduation ceremony for Israeli officers on Thursday ... He addedIt might be very risky for them … It’s very obvious that Israel, in case of an Iranian retaliation, will probably move forward to the next stage of attacks on Iran which could certainly involve not just military targets, but also symbols of the Iranian regime, oil installations and then also nuclear facilities.”
He saidThe report is unfounded and, from a logical standpoint, unlikely to be accurate,
the Iranian Mission said without specifying the report in question
The investigations reveal, once again, the efforts of the Iranian intelligence agencies to recruit and exploit Israeli citizens in order to promote espionage and terrorist activity in Israel,
the senior Shin Bet member saidTherefore, ... reason dictates that Iranian intelligence services would pursue non-Iranian and non-Muslim individuals."
it addedThese are people on the fringes of society, without careers, families or roots in the community,
Goren said
We always assume there are more out there,
Goren saidWhat makes this so grave is that information is being relayed in real time, during a war,
former Shin Bet director Yoram Cohen saidAssessments from Iranian outlets and officials have morphed from trying to downplay the strike to using it to grandstand and threaten revenge,
Taleblu said
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 Lebanese mediaOur military lost people, so they need to respond,
the Iranian official said
My hope is this is the end."
The Biden-Harris administration, committed to de-escalation and conflict avoidance, views the October operation as the end of Israel’s Iran campaign, with President Biden remarkingWe believe this should be the end of the direct exchange of fire between Israel and Iran,
she saidIf they [the Israelis] reconsider their behavior, accept a cease-fire and stop massacring the oppressed and innocent people of the region, it could affect the intensity and type of our response,
Masoud Pezeshkian said, quoted by state news agency IRNA
Thank God, our officials are currently engaged in this”.
He further added
There's no heating. We don't have warm clothes,
said Fatima, 17, who now camps out with her family at a school near Deir al-Ahmar, in Lebanon's eastern Baalbek area