Iran is getting ready to “imminently” launch a ballistic missile assault towards Israel, a senior White Home official informed Fox Information on Tuesday morning, following weeks of Israeli strikes towards Tehran’s proxies within the area.
“America has indications that Iran is getting ready to imminently launch a ballistic missile assault towards Israel,” the official mentioned. “We’re actively supporting defensive preparations to defend Israel towards this assault. A direct army assault from Iran towards Israel will carry extreme penalties for Iran.”
One other U.S. official informed Fox Information that Iran might launch its assault as quickly as Tuesday afternoon, saying that the U.S. has seen extra motion of missiles in Iran to organize for the now “imminent” assault.
The official added that Iran’s assault might seem like the one it launched in April towards Israel, which had greater than 300 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones.
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Whereas the U.S. official didn’t know what the precise scope or measurement might be, the official mentioned that Iran has been at a state of readiness to launch an assault on Israel inside 12 to 24 hours since early August following the July thirty first assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
Iran already launched an unprecedented direct assault on Israel in April, although the regime’s proxies, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, have traded assaults with Israel for the reason that Israel-Hamas struggle started on Oct. 7.
On Tuesday, Israel was starting a restricted floor invasion into southern Lebanon towards Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah, probably the most highly effective armed group within the Center East, has been reeling from weeks of focused strikes that killed its chief, Hassan Nasrallah, and a number of other of his prime commanders.
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Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei referred to as Nasrallah “the flag-bearer of resistance” within the area.
Iranian Chief Ali Khamenei has reportedly moved into hiding and stays at a safe location inside the nation. (Iranian Chief Press Workplace / Handout/Anadolu by way of Getty Pictures, File)
“The blood of the martyr shall not go unavenged,” Khamenei mentioned after Nasrallah was killed late final week in Beirut, Lebanon, by an Israeli airstrike, in accordance with Reuters.
Three U.S. Navy destroyers are positioned within the Mediterranean Sea, an plane provider within the Gulf of Oman and fighter jets arrayed all through the area to help Israel within the occasion of an assault from Iran. All are able to capturing down incoming missiles.
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In the meantime, the U.S. State Division introduced Tuesday that sanctions are being imposed on two Israelis and a “violent extremist group” within the West Financial institution as Iran threatens to strike the Jewish State.
Fox Information’ Nicolas Rojas and Greg Norman, together with The Related Press contributed to this report.
