US warns about ‘significant set’ of anti-Israeli retaliatory attacks by Iran, resistance front

The US has warned that Iran and the regional resistance movements could launch “a significant set of attacks” against the Israeli regime in retaliation for the latter’s assassination of senior resistance figures last month.

The retaliation could come as early as “this week,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Monday.

Washington was not sure yet “what that could look like,” Kirby noted in reference to the quality of the pending retaliation, but added, “We're continuing to watch it very, very closely.”

On July 31, the regime assassinated Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ Political Bureau chief, alongside one of his bodyguards in the Iranian capital Tehran.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Tehran

Hamas Political Bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in an attack in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

Tel Aviv has denied responsibility for the atrocity, but the Islamic Republic has held it squarely responsible and vowed to serve it with a harsh response.

Also on Monday, a senior Iranian military official asserted that the Islamic Republic’s revenge on the regime “is on its way.”

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“The aspects of this [retaliatory] measure are under consideration,” Brigadier General Ali Shadmani, deputy coordinator of the country’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, noted, adding, “It will definitely take place.”

Haniyeh’s assassination came only a day after an Israeli aerial attack against Lebanon’s capital Beirut led to the martyrdom of Fuad Shukr, a senior commander with Hezbollah and an advisor to the Lebanese resistance movement’s Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

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The killing of Shukr was carried out hours before the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

Hezbollah has similarly pledged to face the regime with a strong reprisal.

Resistance movements from Iraq and Yemen have also sternly vowed to join Iran and Hezbollah in avenging the blood of Haniyeh and Shukr.

Kirby said, “We have to be prepared” for the prospect, “which is why again we have increased our force posture and capabilities in the region even, in just the last few days.”

On Sunday, the Pentagon said the US was sending a guided missile submarine and speeding up the transit of an aircraft carrier strike group to the West Asia region. The strike group will join aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and its accompanying warships, which have already been deployed to the Gulf of Oman.

Earlier this month, Kirby said, “Iran has already proven it is capable and willing to launch a major attack on Israel.”

He was referring to Operation True Promise, a multi-pronged retaliation that was launched by the Islamic Republic against the occupied Palestinian territories on April 13.

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The retaliation saw the country firing more than 300 drones and missiles towards the territories in response the regime’s earlier assassination of two generals of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and their companions in the Syrian capital Damascus.

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