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Meanwhile, the chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps warned that Iran “will not leave any threat unanswered”.
“Sometimes, the enemies make threats. And these days, too, we hear some threats in the US officials’ rhetoric,” Major General Hossein Salami said on Wednesday.
“We tell them (the Americans) that you have tested us and we know each other. We will not leave any threat unanswered.”
The IRGC chief stressed that, “We are not seeking war, yet are not afraid of it either.”
Tensions have soared in the region since the October 7 attacks by Hamas against Israel, with US forces in Iraq and Syria coming under attack 165 times by the resistance groups in the intervening months.
The resistance groups say the attacks are in retaliation for the US support for Israel in the brutal Gaza war, which has killed at least 26,900 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 65,949 others over nearly four months.
An Iraqi resistance group said it has suspended operations against US forces.
Kataib Hezbollah said this was “to prevent embarrassment of the Iraqi government”.
The US Defense Department said, “Actions speak louder than words.”
Kataib Hezbollah Secretary-General Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi said in a statement on Tuesday: “As we announce the suspension of military and security operations against the occupation forces - in order to prevent embarrassment of the Iraqi government - we will continue to defend our people in Gaza in other ways.”
Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement has also launched many attacks on Israeli targets inside the occupied territories in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The United States and Britain have also launched a campaign of air strikes against Yemen which has carried out repeated attacks on Israel-bound ships in the Red Sea in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Yemen’s Ansarallah movement also says the attacks on the ships are in support of the Palestinians.