Iran’s defense chief threatens to hit all infrastructure in Israel if they choose to respond, reports the AFP news agency. – The bombing will be repeated with higher intensity and all infrastructure in the country will be affected, said the Chief of the General Staff, Mohammad Bagheri, on state television. The chief of the general staff of Iran’s armed forces, Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, threatens Israel. Here during a military parade commemorating the anniversary of the start of the Iraq-Iran war in 1980–88. Photo: Vahid Salemi / AP The threat comes after Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack a “big mistake” for which Iran will pay. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre asks the parties to avoid military responses. – Many signs suggest that we are in a major war. When Iran and Israel, countries that do not border each other, are in armed conflict, it is a serious state of war, the prime minister told NTB during a press meeting at Rikshospitalet on Wednesday. The videos will show damage to a restaurant and a shop in Tel Aviv after Iran fired 200 missiles at the city. The power spiral continues – Iranians are not happy and do not share the opinion of the Iranian regime. Most of them are strongly against what is now happening and are very worried. That’s what Sharam Alghasi from Iran says. He knows the country, the regime and the political situation well. The professor of media sociology at Kristiania University believes it was a mistake by Iran to attack Israel. – Then the spiral of violence continues and the situation worsens. For Iran, Israel, Lebanon and the Palestinians. It is a huge mistake and ideological warfare on Iran’s part, says Alghasi. A school building with extensive damage after a projectile exploded on impact in the southern town of Gedera in Israel on 1 October this year, after Iran fired 200 missiles at Israel on Tuesday evening. Photo: MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP The professor points out that Iran felt obliged to do something after the murder of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, but believes there was disagreement within the regime when it came to how the country should act. – Officials in Iran basically have little influence on such political decisions as attacking another country. At the same time, we have seen a very strong anti-Israel sentiment in the Iranian regime for a long time, he says. The Iran connoisseur believes the situation the Middle East is currently in is a result of radicalization from both Iran, Israel and the USA. Fears destabilization Dag Tuastad, Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oslo, describes Iran’s attack on Israel as short-lived and without major losses. – These Iranian attacks have not deterred Israel. At the same time, they have weakened Hezbollah and their ability to attack Israel, he says. Tuastad now fears destabilization in the region. Dag Tuastad, Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oslo. Photo: Alf Simensen / news – There is a risk that Israel will go for their end point, namely Iran, which sponsors their enemies in the region. According to Tuastad, Israeli intelligence has long waged a secret war against Iran, with a focus on stopping their nuclear weapons project. – Now Israel sees a chance to attack these facilities that enrich uranium militarily. They may even have the USA on the team. Attacked Israel with 200 rockets It was on Tuesday evening that Iran fired 180 missiles into Israel, according to the Israeli military (IDF). Iran itself has confirmed that they fired 200 rockets, state Iranian television reports. The country is allied with Hamas and Hezbollah, and has been blamed for using them for a proxy war. The president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, commented on the attack against Israel on Tuesday evening. – This is only a small part of our strength. Don’t end up in a conflict with Iran, he wrote on X. – Iran does not want war, but will face all threats, he wrote further. Photo: Ronen Zvulun / Reuters What will the US do? Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide guested on Nyheitsmorgon on news on Wednesday. There he said that it is precisely this escalation that has been feared in the Middle East. – If there is to be a way out of this, a ceasefire is needed both in Lebanon and in Gaza, which after all is the original conflict. Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide (Ap). Photo: Alf Simensen / news The Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is said to have said that Tehran has warned the US against getting involved after the missile attack on Israel. This is reported by Reuters via the Iranian news agency Tasmin. Middle Eastern expert Hilde Henriksen Waage stated on Tuesday that it is difficult to predict the way forward after the attack on Tuesday. – I think that what we are most wondering tonight is what the US will do now. The US is actually a bit tricked into this war by Israel. Waage points out that the US has been talking about a cease-fire and peace negotiations in the past year. – Then we see that when Israel is unleashing on Hezbollah, and Hezbollah is unleashing on Israel, the USA says that they are now coming to Israel’s aid. It is very dangerous when the great power USA has been dragged into the war, said Waage. Hilde Henriksen Waage is professor of history at the University of Oslo and at the peace research institute Prio. Photo: Eskil Wie Furunes / news The foreign minister was also on board: – There is an election campaign in the USA, and this plays a role there. Netanyahu knows exactly what he is doing when he tries to get this back to what he wants it to be, i.e. a conflict with Iran, he said. Published 02.10.2024, at 05.24 Updated 02.10.2024, at 12.35 p.m
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