Iran threat after Israel spy drone shot down
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TEHRAN will “accelerate” arming Palestinians after Israel deployed a spy drone over Iran, which was shot down.
Iran has confirmed it supplied Palestinian fighters from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad with the technology for the rockets being fired relentlessly into Israel from Gaza since July 8. “We will accelerate the arming of the West Bank and we reserve the right to give any response,” said General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, commander of aerial forces of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, in a statement on its website sepahnews.com.
Last month, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the Islamic world to arm Palestinians to allow them to counter what he called Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza.
He also said Israel was acting like a “rabid dog” and “a wild wolf,” causing a human catastrophe that must be resisted.
The death toll from seven weeks of violence in Gaza rose to 2,124 on the Palestinian side yesterday. Sixty-eight Israelis have been killed, four of them civilians and the rest soldiers.
Since a cease-fire collapsed on August 19, more than 650 rockets have struck Israeli territory from Gaza and around 100 others have been shot down.
Iran’s warning yesterday came a day after the Guards said they had downed an Israeli “Hermes” stealth drone above the Natanz uranium enrichment site in the center of the country.
Natanz is Iran’s main uranium enrichment site, housing more than 16,000 centrifuges. Around 3,000 more are at the Fordo plant, buried inside a mountain and hard to destroy.
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