[RYAN ROBERTSON]

IRAN’S TOP DIPLOMAT SAYS IF ISRAEL ATTACKS TEHRAN IT COULD LEAD TO “A LARGE-SCALE WAR.”

CLAIMING IRAN IS READY FOR ANY ISRAELI ATTACK AGAINST THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC.

THE COMMENTS FIRST SURFACED WHEN AN INTERVIEW WITH THE IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, ABBAS ARAGCHI, RECENTLY AIRED ON CHINESE-STATE-MEDIA 

ARAGCHI TOLD CHINA’S C-C-T-V HE HOPES “ISRAEL WILL AVOID SUCH RECKLESS ACTIONS, AS THEY COULD ESCALATE INTO A LARGE-SCALE-WAR.”

TEHRAN IS WORRIED ISRAEL MAY STRIKE AGAIN IN RESPONSE TO RELENTLESS MISSILE ATTACKS BY YEMEN’S HOUTHI REBELS… WHO GET THEIR WEAPONS FROM IRAN.

IT’S AN ESPECIALLY TENSE SITUATION AFTER THE LAST FEW WEEKS, WHICH SAW A RISE IN ATTACKS FROM THE HOUTHIS INCLUDING A BALLISTIC MISSILE LAUNCHED TOWARD ISRAEL.

COUNTERATTACKS AGAINST THE HOUTHI’S HAVEN’T BEEN PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE.

SO, SOME WITHIN THE COUNTRY, LIKE MOSSAD CHIEF DAVID BARNEA ARE SUGGESTING ISRAEL LAUNCH ANOTHER DIRECT STRIKE INTO IRAN TO TAKE OUT THE SOURCE OF THE HOUTHI’S WEAPONS 

ISRAEL ALREADY PUMMELED IRAN WITH TWO DIRECT ATTACKS OVER THE PAST YEAR IN RETALIATION FOR CONTINUAL MISSILE AND DRONE STRIKES.

INCLUDING AN OCTOBER 1ST ATTACK FROM IRAN THAT SAW SOME 200 MISSILES FIRED AT ISRAEL.

THE IRON DOME AND OTHER AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS INTERCEPTED MOST OF THEM BUT ISRAEL STILL CARRIED OUT A COUNTERATTACK ON OCTOBER 26TH, POUNDING IRANIAN MILITARY SITES…AND DECIMATING THE COUNTRY’S AIR DEFENSES

ISRAEL ALSO LAUNCHED A STRIKE ON AN AIR DEFENSE BATTERY NEAR A NUCLEAR SITE IN APRIL FOR FOR ANOTHER SERIES OF DRONE AND MISSILE ATTACKS COURTESY OF IRAN.

DESPITE THE TOUGH WORDS, IRAN’S TOP DIPLOMAT SAYS HE BELIEVES “REASON WILL ULTIMATELY PREVAIL AND PREVENT SEVERE CONSEQUENCES” WHILE ALSO CLAIMING TEHRAN IS TRULY SEEKING A “DIPLOMATIC APPROACH.”

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