ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - In a rare Friday sermon, the first of its kind in five years, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said they would keep up fighting Israel, while defending his country’s overweekend missile attacks on Israel.
Khamenei’s address in Tehran comes after Iran’s second missile attacks in five months on Israel, and days ahead of the first anniversary of the Hamas October 7 attacks on Israel, which he described as “logical and legal.”
“The resistance in the region will not back down with these martyrdom, and will win,” Khamenei said, describing the Israeli government as a “malicious regime” in the region that has only “kept itself standing by the injection of American support.”
But “it will not last long,” Khamenei said.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) launched over 200 ballistic missiles on Tel Aviv and several other regions of Israel on Tuesday night, with Tehran saying ninety percent of the missiles hit their targets and the government of Israel saying most of them were intercepted.
Khamenei’s address also comes amid Israel’s intensifying air campsings on parts of Lebanon, including capital Beirut, despite the killing of Hezbollah's top leader Hassan Nasrallah and dozens other key leaders of the group since last month.
In addition to daily airstrikes, Israel has also launched a ground aggression in southern Lebanon aimed at “dismantling” Hezbollah and its capabilities near the border.
The Israeli military claimed on Friday that they have hit up to 2,000 sites during the south Lebanon operation during its four-day incursion, targeting Hezbollah positions.
"Over 2,000 military targets have been struck," including militants, military buildings, weapons and more, the Israeli military said in a statement.
Up to one million people in Lebanon have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the recent Israeli aggression. Around 1,000 people have been killed by Israeli strikes on Lebanon in the past two weeks.
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