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Raisi: Some int’l legal cases need offensive approach
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said it is necessary to take an offensive approach in defending the rights of the Iranian nation in some legal cases.
He made the remarks in a meeting with the officials of the Presidential Department for Legal Affairs on Monday.
“So far, the dominant approach in the country’s international legal cases has been a defensive approach, while in some cases, it is necessary to take an offensive approach in defending the rights of the Iranian nation and facing aggressive countries in order to assert our rights,” he said.
Raisi also thanked the department’s officials for following up Iran’s legal cases in international courts, including the US assassination of the late commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.
Hezbollah fires rockets at Israeli military base
Hezbollah fired on Monday a volley of rockets at an Israeli military base, the Lebanese group said after Israel’s first strikes on Lebanon’s east in months of hostilities linked to the Gaza war.
Two Hezbollah members were killed in the Israeli strikes in the eastern Baalbek areak, AFP reported.
“In response to the Zionist aggression near the city of Baalbek,” fighters targeted an army base in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights “with 60 Katyusha rockets”, Hezbollah said in a statement. The Israeli army told AFP that “dozens of rockets” had been launched from Lebanon. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The military had said the strikes near Baalbek targeted Hezbollah air defense systems in retaliation for the group downing one of its drones in south Lebanon earlier on Monday. One of the Lebanese security sources said Israeli strikes hit a building used by Hezbollah in a Baalbek suburb, and a warehouse near Baalbek belonging to the group. Hezbollah later announced two of its fighters had been killed by Israeli fire.
Israeli attack was the first Israeli attack on Hezbollah outside Lebanon’s south since war erupted on October 7 between Israel and Palestinian Hamas resistance group Hamas.