• Funeral of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh held in Tehran
    • Israel has not claimed responsibility for the assassination
    • Iranian officials to meet regional allies to discuss retaliation

DUBAI, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Top Iranian officials will meet the representatives of Iran’s regional allies from Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen on Thursday to discuss potential retaliation against Israel after the killing of the Hamas leader in Tehran, five sources told Reuters.

The region faces a risk of widened conflict between Israel, Iran and its proxies after Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran on Wednesday and the killing of Hezbollah’s senior commander on Tuesday in an Israeli strike on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital Beirut.

Representatives of Iran’s Palestinian allies Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, as well as Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthi movement, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iraqi resistance groups will attend the meeting in Tehran, said the sources, who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue.

“Iran and the resistance members will conduct a thorough assessment after the meeting in Tehran to find the best and most effective way to retaliate against the Zionist regime (Israel),” said a senior Iranian official, with direct knowledge of the meeting. Another Iranian official said Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and senior members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards will attend.

“How Iran and the resistance front will respond is currently being reviewed … This will certainly happen and the Zionist regime (Israel) will undoubtedly regret it,” General Mohammad Baqeri, Iran’s armed forces chief of staff, told state TV on Thursday.

Iran and Hamas have accused Israel of carrying out the strike that killed Haniyeh hours after he attended the inauguration of Iran’s new president in Tehran on Wednesday.

  • @wildbus8979English
    13•1 month ago

    In accordance to multiple UN resolutions and international law, as well as simple ethics, occupied people have a right to armed resistance. Occupiers and apartheid states do not.

    One has to remember that in 1948, the UN was basically nothing but the League of Nations and some puppet states, which had to be bribed and threatened for the motion to pass.

      • @wildbus8979English
        6•1 month ago

        How do you feel about Nelson Mandela?

        The attack on October 7th certainly had a much much MUCH better uniform/civilian kill ratio (about 1:1) than what ever Israel does (probably in the order or 1:100 if we’re being EXTREMELY generous).

        • @[email protected]English
          4•1 month ago

          MK killed fewer than a hundred people and had killed nobody before Mandela was arrested. Comparing MK to Hamas is pretty ridiculous considering Hamas has intentionally gone after civilians.

          But hey, if Hamas gets out there and loudly proclaims their adherence to non-violence like Mandela did then I’d be ecstatic.

    • @[email protected]English
      -8•1 month ago

      Fine by me, 2state solution yesterday, do the occupied recognize Israel’s 67 borders?

      PS: Or do you think israel is going to recognize Palestine only for Palestine to be an islamist spearhead right in the heart of Israel for Iran’s attacks? Don’t give the fascists in power in Israel more ammo to shame the pacifists.

      • @wildbus8979English
        12•1 month ago

        So far the only ones who have blocked that continuously is Israel. I for one think that’s still a bad deal and would be satisfied with nothing else but a one state solution, but I understand how desperate the Palestinians are and wouldn’t fault them either way.

        “Pacifism” serves no one but the oppressor. No one’s ever freed themselves without strength of actions.

        • @[email protected]English
          -2•1 month ago

          I was talking about israeli pacifists, who are basically treated as a joke after Oct 7th and apparently by you too. Israel was on the brink of a civil war between the fascists and rule of law moderates before Oct 7th and this attack solidified the fascists in power for decades.

            • @[email protected]English
              0•1 month ago

              and they probably never will, if the fascists inside and the aggressors outside keep them irrelevant.

          • @wildbus8979English
            5•1 month ago

            who are basically treated as a joke after Oct 7th and apparently by you too

            Unless they were advocating for a one state solution, yes, yes I do.

            • @[email protected]English
              -7•1 month ago

              Israel was created by a UN resolution, simultaneously with Palestine and is a result of the Arabs and Jews as winners against the Ottoman empire in WW1 and the nazis in WW2. They both got land. Jews got half of Palestine. Arabs got everything else: Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and half of Palestine. What was the problem here, exactly? Maybe the solution is to return everything to the Brits or the Ottomans. No more squabbling, lol.

              • @[email protected]English
                7•1 month ago

                Palestine was meant to go entirely to the Palestinian.

                Zionist terror campaigns and assassinations against the British forced them to concede land to the Zionists.

                Zionists were literally trying to ally with Nazi Germany against Britain during WW2 ffs.

                • @[email protected]English
                  -1•1 month ago

                  Zionists were literally trying to ally with Nazi Germany against Britain during WW2 ffs.

                  I know the mufti of Jerusalem was best buds with Hitler, but I’ve never heard that one. Isn’t that part of Mahmoud Abbas’ goofy PhD thesis?

                  • @[email protected]English
                    5•1 month ago

                    Lehi split from the Irgun militant group in 1940 in order to continue fighting the Britishduring World War II. It initially sought an alliance with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.[22] Believing that Nazi Germany was a lesser enemy of the Jews than Britain, Lehi twice attempted to form an alliance with the Nazis, proposing a Jewish state based on “nationalist and totalitarian principles, and linked to the German Reich by an alliance”.

                    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_(militant_group)

                    Than there’s also the Haavara Agreement where they agreed to stop boycotting Nazi Germany so that they could get more people over to colonise/invade Palestine.

                    And as I’m sure you know many members of Lehi went on to have long lasting careers in Israeli politics, even being Netanyahus mentor and founding the Likud party he belongs to.

                    So the people who wanted to ally with the Nazis still run Israel today, crazy world.