Hezbollah strike bespeaks Israel’s loss of deterrence power: Iran
Iran said on Monday that Israel had lost its deterrence power and that the strategic balance in the region had shifted against it, following attacks by the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.
Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early on Sunday in response to the regime’s assassination of Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander, in southern Beirut last month.
Israel’s military also said it had struck Lebanon with around 100 jets to thwart a larger attack, in one of the biggest clashes in more than 10 months of border warfare.
“Despite unbridled support from its sympathizers like the United States, Israel could not predict the time and place of a limited and managed response by the resistance. Israel has lost its deterrence power,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani wrote on X.
Kanaani said Israel “now has to defend itself within its occupied territories,” and that “strategic balances have undergone fundamental changes” to the detriment of Israel.
“The passage of time is not in favor of the Zionist regime and its supporters,” the Iranian spokesman warned.
Kanaani said Israel may be able to distort or conceal certain realities regarding Hezbollah’s retaliatory attacks “but it knows well that the existing facts will not be changed.” Israel has reportedly banned coverage of the damage inflicted by Hezbollah strikes.
The Telegraph, quoting sources, reported that the Israeli regime issued a censorship decree, requiring reporters to obtain permission before publishing “damage caused by rocket attacks to strategic infrastructure or to military bases” to avoid “harm to Israeli forces on the ground.”