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Israel is once again dealing with “terrorist” groups in south-eastern Iran to destabilise the country’s security and thus mitigate Tehran’s response to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital at the end of July, Fars news agency has reported.
According to an informed source cited by the agency, the occupation state is instigating armed activities against the Islamic Republic. “However, the [Zionist] entity’s efforts will not deter Iran from taking revenge, the decision for which is irreversible.”
This point was pushed home last Monday by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. His country remains determined to respond to the assassination of the democratically-elected former Palestinian Prime Minister, he insisted. “It will be decisive and calculated.”
The minister told his Italian counterpart Antonio Tajani during a telephone call that Tehran does not seek to “increase tension” in the Middle East, “but, it is not afraid of it.” He added that an Iranian response to the “terrorist act carried out by the Zionist entity in Tehran is inevitable.”
Araghchi’s statement comes after Hezbollah carried out a large-scale attack on the occupation state in response to the assassination of its prominent military official, Fuad Shukr, in an Israeli raid on the southern suburb of Beirut a day before the political murder of Haniyeh.
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