Hezbollah: Iran's counterattack on Israel is “inevitable” because of the attack on the consulate

The Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, Hassan Nasrallah, said today, Friday, April 5, that Iran’s response to the strike attributed to Israel against the Iranian consulate in Damascus, a raid that killed 16 people, is “inevitable.” “.

Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech: “Be confident that the Iranian response to the strike on the consulate in Damascus is inevitable.”

He added, “Where, how, when, and in what size will the response be, we are not obligated to ask,” believing that the decision is in Tehran's hands.

Seven Iranian soldiers, including two senior officers, were killed in an air strike on the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital on Monday. Iran immediately blamed Israel, which did not confirm responsibility for the attack.

According to the head of the Lebanese armed group – an ally of Iran – the attack on the consulate represents a turning point after the start of the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas, which has already entered its sixth month. The war began with the Palestinian movement's attack on southern Israel.

Since then, Hezbollah has launched daily attacks against Israel from southern Lebanon in support of its ally, Hamas, and Israeli forces have responded militarily, raising fears of the expansion of the war.

In his speech on the occasion of Jerusalem Day, which is celebrated every last Friday of the month of Ramadan in solidarity with the Palestinians and against Israel, Nasrallah warned that Hezbollah “does not fear war and is fully prepared for any war” against Israel.

At the same time, he warned that his organization had not yet used its “main weapons” in the daily exchange of fire with Israel in recent months. “We have not yet used our main weapons and we have not used our main forces” in the fighting, he said.