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The quadcopters are everywhere, and they fire at anyone. You can’t even open the window,
he told The Associated Press by phone, speaking over the sound of explosions It’s like hell. We can’t get out,
said Mohamed Awda, who lives with his parents and six siblings Our strike will be lethal, precise and above all, surprising. They won’t understand what happened and how. They will see the results,
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said during a speech to troops Whoever attacks us will be hurt and will pay a price.
After describing Iran's October 1 missile attack as a failure, Gallant said To my understanding, ... it has to do directly with Iran's changing threat perception and the growing sense of insecurity that the Iranian leadership feels as a result of what's going on in Gaza and the broader region."
They have publicly said their goal is to wipe the State of Israel off the face of the Earth, and we take that seriously,
Israel alone is not capable of a broad military confrontation with Iran unless the U.S. participates,
In Iran, the strategic decision makers, as far as I can see, they really have concluded that Israel is not going to stop in Lebanon. They are coming front by front,
Iran's military doctrine is based on the concept of forward defense, whose main pillar is asymmetric deterrence, ... asymmetric in the sense that Iran sees itself facing adversaries much more powerful in terms of conventional military capabilities, and as a result, it has felt the need to develop the kind of tactics and measures to confront and overcome this asymmetry."
In the event of a military attack, ... there will be no guarantee for the continuation of Iran's peaceful nuclear program."
Iran hasn't made the decision to acquire nuclear weapons, but this continued animosity with Israel—combined with U.S. emboldening of Israel's more escalatory actions—might push Iran to make this decision out of desperation,
What Iran has been witnessing since the start of the war in Gaza has been Israeli determination and now also action, actual moves towards, if not dismantling, at least significantly weakening, the network of Iranian proxies and allies in the region,
However, in the event of an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, all of which are subject to monitoring and inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency, ... there exists a possibility of Iran reconsidering its collaboration within the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA."
It could include certain terms on Iran's status in the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) or could include pathways at accelerating its program,
Since the start of the war in Gaza, there has been an increase in the mentions by current or former Iranian officials to the possibility, and more recently, the necessity, actually, to revise the nuclear doctrine and go for weaponization,
Hamidreza Azizi, a visiting fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, told Newsweek As we know, Iran's nuclear doctrine remains unchanged,
the Iranian Mission told Newsweek at the time And we are ready to protect ourselves, both with our aerial defense system and also have active defense or preemptive attacks or act in response to their attacks on us, and we've said that publicly,
It's a matter of when, not if, for Iran,
Whether it takes a few weeks or a few months for Iran to obtain a nuclear warhead will not make a decisive difference in the outcome,
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat who served on Iran's nuclear negotiations team in the mid-2000s and is today a specialist at Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security, told Newsweek No international organization, European country, or even the U.S. can restrain the Zionist regime today, and this regime commits any crime it wishes. That’s why we wrote this letter,