Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett slammed President Joe Biden on Sunday for trying to pressure Israel into not responding to Iran&#8217;s unprecedented attack this weekend.
Bennett&#8217;s remarks on social media comes after Iran fired hundreds of projectiles — ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones — at Israel.
Bennett said that claims that Iran launched its attack as a show for its own people were false.
&#8220;When you shoot 350 flying objects timed to hit Israel at the same moment, when you use three fundamentally different weapon types — cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and UAVs, you’re looking to penetrate Israel’s defenses and kill Israelis,&#8221; he said.
Bennett directly pushed back against the Biden administration for telling Israel that it got a &#8220;win&#8221; and that they should take the win. The &#8220;win,&#8221; according to the Biden administration, was the fact that 99% of the projectiles were shot down by Israel and its allies in the region.
&#8220;No, it’s NOT a victory,&#8221; Bennett wrote. &#8220;When a bully tries to hit you 350 times and only succeeds seven time, you’ve NOT won. You don’t win wars just by intercepting your enemy’s hits, nor do you deter it. Your enemy will just try harder with more and better weapons and methods next time.&#8221;
He said that the only way to deter further aggression was by &#8220;exacting a deeply painful price.&#8221;
Bennett said that the attack was a &#8220;big mistake&#8221; by Iran — which he referred to as &#8220;a terror-octopus whose head is Tehran, and its tentacles are in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Gaza.&#8221;
&#8220;Israel’s strategic mistake for the past 30 years was to play along this strategy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We always fought the Octopus’ arms, but hardly exacted a price from its Iranian head.&#8221;
&#8220;This should change now: Hezbollah or Hamas shoots a rocket at Israel? Tehran pays a price,&#8221; he added.
Bennett said that Israel&#8217;s enemy was the Iran&#8217;s oppressive government, not the citizens of the country, and that the country would eventually collapse in a similar manner as the Soviet Union did.
&#8220;I’ll be clear: if these crazy fanatic Islamic terrorists get away with murder by hiding among civilians, this method will be adopted by terrorists worldwide,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;We’re not asking anyone to fight for us. We’ll do the job. But we do expect our allies to have our back, especially when it’s tough — and now it’s tough. Be on the right side and help us defeat these horrible and savage regimes.&#8221;
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Some points regarding the overnight Iranian missile attack on Israel:
1. Contrary to what pundits are saying, this wasn’t designed merely as “bells and whistles” with no damage. 
When you shoot 350 flying objects timed to hit Israel at the same moment, when you use three…
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President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday that the United States would not support an Israeli counterattack against Iran.
Biden spoke with Netanyahu on a call after Iran launched dozens of drones and more than 100 ballistic missiles in retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed a top Iranian general and other military officers. Biden reportedly called a joint defense of Israel a “win,” <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/04/14/biden-netanyahu-iran-israel-us-wont-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a> reports.
Biden reportedly told the prime minister that the U.S. would not participate in nor support an Israeli military response to Iran’s attack. Biden and top White House officials are concerned that escalating military action between Israel and Iran could have significant consequences for the region.
“You got a win. Take the win,” Biden told Netanyahu, according to a White House official who spoke with Axios.
Iran’s attack is the first time it has launched a direct strike on Israel from Iranian soil. Iran proxy militias – such as Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon – have launched repeated, aggressive attacks on Israel for months since October 7 when Hamas invaded Israel, killing roughly 1,200 people and taking hundreds more as hostages. The Houthis in Yemen, another Iranian proxy group, has attacked shipping through the Red Sea in retaliation for Israel’s war against Hamas.
An Israeli airstrike on April 1 killed Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), and his deputy Mohammad Hadi Haji-Rahimi. Five other IRGC officers were killed. The strike hit part of the Iranian embassy complex in Damascus, Syria.
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Iran promised retaliation for the strike, sending the Israeli and U.S. militaries into high alert. The expected Iranian strike came Saturday in a series of drone and missile attacks <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68810053" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> from Iran and by its proxy militias in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. Most of the attack was thwarted or missed. An air force base in southern Israel was hit slightly, and a seven-year-old child was wounded by shrapnel.
Biden said that the U.S. played a key role in thwarting the attack, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-israel-iran-proxies-mideast-tensions-hamas-c57e89a9cbe178b20b53bac404a86728">saying</a> the U.S. military &#8220;helped Israel take down nearly all of the incoming drones and missiles&#8221; targeting the Jewish state. 
Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s unity government and war cabinet, said that Israel would strike back at Iran.
&#8220;We will build a regional coalition and exact the price from Iran in the fashion and timing that is right for us,&#8221; Gantz said in a statement, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-netanyahu-vows-victory-after-iran-strikes-fears-wider-conflict-grow-2024-04-14/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>.

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) said during an interview over the weekend that Americans in the Middle East were in danger of becoming targets for the Islamic Republic of Iran as the world&#8217;s leading state sponsor of terrorism looks to avenge the loss of one of its top generals.
Turner made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; with Jake Tapper when asked about Iran&#8217;s forthcoming retaliation after Israel killed Mohammed Reza Zahedi, the top commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Quds Force, last week.
A hardline group in Iran with connections to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that Zahedi played a “strategic role in forming and strengthening the resistance front as well as in planning and executing” Hamas&#8217; unprecedented terrorist attack on October 7.
&#8220;I think Americans in the area remain in danger,&#8221; Turner said when asked about what Iran was planning. &#8220;Remember, Iranian proxies have continued to attack U.S. troops in the area, again, with the Biden administration being slow to respond and ultimately responding to those attacks. And, of course, the United States has moved additional capabilities and assets in the area to deter Iran from entering into this conflict directly with Israel, although their proxy is Hamas, which the conflict is directly with.&#8221;
&#8220;And Hezbollah continues to be a threat to Israel in Lebanon,&#8221; he added, noting that Zahedi was a &#8220;legitimate target&#8221; for Israel to eliminate because he was a key Iranian player behind much of the country&#8217;s terrorism in the Syria and Lebanon.

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U.S. border officials captured a Lebanese national on the southern border more than a week ago who told agents he was a member of the Hezbollah terrorist group planning to make a bomb in the United States.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/us-news/illegal-migrant-from-lebanon-admitted-terror-ties/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested 22-year-old Basel Bassel Ebbadi on March 9 near El Paso, Texas.
An internal Border Patrol document obtained by The Post designated Ebbadi&#8217;s apprehension as a &#8220;Significant Arrest.&#8221;
&#8220;El Paso Sector Intelligence Agents assigned to the Tactical Terrorism Response Team (TTRT) interviewed Basel Bassel EBBADI from Lebanon after he made terroristic threats to personnel at the EP Sector Hardened Facility,&#8221; the document said. &#8220;Post Miranda, Basel Bassel EBBADI claimed membership to a foreign terrorist organization.&#8221;
The document said that two days after he was arrested, medical staff was evaluating him and asked what he was doing in the U.S., to which he responded: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to try to make a bomb.&#8221;
He reportedly told U.S. officials that he had trained with Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Islamic terrorist group based in Lebanon, for seven years and was an active member involved in guarding the group&#8217;s weapons.
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He told officials that his training focused on &#8220;jihad&#8221; and killing people &#8220;that was not Muslim,&#8221; the report said. He was planning on making his way to New York.
The Post report was viewed tens of millions of times on X on Sunday and generated notable responses from conservative leaders.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) posted: &#8220;Biden&#8217;s open border is an open invitation for Iran-backed terrorists to infiltrate our homeland. This will only get worse until Biden secures the border.&#8221;

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/iran" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Islamic Republic of Iran</a> has reportedly given its most powerful terrorist proxy group — the Lebanese-based Hezbollah terrorist organization — permission to escalate its attacks against Israel.
High-level Iranian and Lebanese sources <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-789447" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> told the Arabic Post this week that Iran, the world&#8217;s leading state sponsor of terrorism, has told Hezbollah to launch a full-scale attack against Israel if Israel moves ahead with going into the Gazan city of Rafah as part of its military operation to destroy Hamas following the October 7 terrorist attack.
Iran gave the order because it believes that once Israel is done eliminating terrorists inside Rafah, it will then attack Hezbollah&#8217;s positions in southern Lebanon.
&#8220;[Hezbollah Secretary-General] Hassan Nasrallah told [Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guards-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) Commander Esmail] Qaani that the attack is likely to be very imminent, most likely in the month of Ramadan, or with Israel’s invasion of the city of Rafah,&#8221; an IRGC source told Arabic Post. &#8220;Nasrallah said that he is completely certain of [Israel&#8217;s] intention to launch a large-scale attack on Lebanon, and he asked Qaani to give him complete freedom in how he intends to attack.&#8221;
Hezbollah has launched hundreds of small-scale attacks against Israel since Hamas&#8217; October 7 attack, forcing dozens of towns in northern Israel to evacuate, leading to hundreds of thousands of Israelis being displaced.
Israel signaled this week that any ceasefire agreement that is reached between Israel and Hamas inside Gaza will not apply to Israel&#8217;s fight against Hezbollah in the north.
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Other media <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2024/02/28/israel-and-hezbollah-preparing-for-large-scale-war-military-and-security-sources-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> from the region this week have indicated that both Israel and Hezbollah are preparing for a full-scale war that is likely to erupt soon.
If Hezbollah decides to launch a full-scale terrorist attack on Israel, it will be in part because they do not believe that President Joe Biden will intervene to stop the attack. Biden has shown extreme hesitation in confronting Iranian-backed Islamic terror attacks against the U.S. and U.S. interests in the region since October 7.
The Houthis, an Iranian-backed terrorist group, have launched approximately 50 attacks against shipping vessels in the Red Sea and Biden has responded with limited airstrikes inside Yemen.
U.S. Forces in Iraq and Syria were attacked approximately 170 times before three U.S. soldiers were killed during one of the attacks earlier this year. After the soldiers were killed, the administration launched limited strikes against some targets in the region.

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The Israel Defense Forces destroyed what it said were two large weapon depots belonging to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization inside Lebanon.
The strikes reportedly occurred near the coastal city of Sidon, which is roughly thirty miles north of the Israel-Lebanon border.
&#8220;IDF fighter jets struck two Hezbollah weapons storage facilities adjacent to the city of Sidon in Lebanon,&#8221; the IDF said in a statement. &#8220;The strike was carried out in response to the launch of a UAV toward the Lower Galilee in northern Israel.&#8221;
&#8220;An examination of the incident suggests that the UAV was most likely launched from Lebanon by the Hezbollah terrorist organization earlier today,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;The incident is under review. Furthermore, over the last few hours, IDF fighter jets struck Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in the areas of Meiss El Jabal and al-Adisa in Lebanon.&#8221;
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Intense Israeli airstrike in the Sidon area, Lebanon a short time ago. <a href="https://t.co/1UB1e5Kq2D">pic.twitter.com/1UB1e5Kq2D</a>
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Hezbollah is considered to be the most powerful and well armed terrorist group in the world thanks to receiving roughly $1 billion a year from Iran.
The group has 20,000 to 25,000 full-time fighters with tens of thousands more in reserves, according to the <a href="https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hezbollah-and-lebanon-an-in-depth-examination-under-hassan-nasrallah-s-leadership/">IDF</a>.
Hezbollah&#8217;s arsenal consists of 17 air-to-surface missile systems, 100 anti-ship missiles (range: 200 km),  hundreds of UAVs (range: 400km), hundreds of precision guided missiles (range: 70-250 km), 400 long-range rockets and Missiles (range: 180-700 km), 4,800 middle-range rockets (range: 40-180 km), 65,000 short range rockets (range: 20-40 km), and 140,000 mortars.

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U.S. intelligence officials are reportedly becoming increasingly concerned that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hezbollah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hezbollah</a>, an Iranian-backed Islamic terrorist group based in Lebanon, could launch terrorist attacks inside the U.S. homeland as tensions in the Middle East continue to rise in the months following Hamas&#8217; October 7 terrorist attack on Israel.
Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/10/american-intel-officials-hezbollah-u-s-attack-risk-00134874" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that officials believe that Hezbollah, which has a large arsenal of rockets and other military equipment, would likely target U.S. personnel in the Middle East first, but they have encountered information indicating that Hezbollah could be planning attacks inside the U.S. or on U.S. officials overseas.
“The arrests of individuals in the United States allegedly linked to Hezbollah’s main overseas terrorist arm, and their intelligence-collection and procurement efforts, demonstrate Hezbollah’s interest in long-term contingency planning activities here in the homeland,” FBI director Chris Wray said in a congressional hearing on November 15.
The terror group has &#8220;capabilities that other terrorist groups in the region do not&#8221; because of the significant funding Hezbollah receives from Iran every year, believed to be near $1 billion.
The terrorist group has various operatives in its expansive terror network that are already <a href="https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/Hezbollah%27s_Operations_and_Networks_in_the_United_States_June30_2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inside</a> the United States, which officials worry the group could activate for attacks.
“Hezbollah could draw on the capability they have … to put people [in] places to do something,” one of the officials told Politico. “It is something to be worried about.”
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Since October 17, Iranian-backed terrorist groups throughout the Middle East have launched at least 127 attacks against U.S. forces, attacks that have been emboldened by the Biden administration&#8217;s unwillingness to punch back hard to deter future attacks.
The terrorist group has <a href="https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/lebanese_hizballah_fto.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conducted</a> major attacks throughout the Middle East, Europe, and South America for decades.
Hezbollah bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in April 1983, killing 78 Americans and injuring 120. Several months later, in October 1983, they bombed the U.S. Marine Corps. barracks in Beirut, killing 241 Americans and injuring 70.

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An alleged Israeli airstrike on Tuesday killed a top Hezbollah commander who was responsible for launching suicide drone attacks on Israel, including an attack earlier in the day.
The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-drone-hits-idf-base-in-safed-israel-said-to-kill-3-terrorists-in-lebanon/">reported</a> that Ali Hussein Barji was the commander of Hezbollah’s aerial forces and was &#8220;responsible for the launching of explosive-laden unmanned aircraft at northern Israel and flying surveillance drones to collect intelligence.&#8221;
The Iranian-backed Islamic terrorist group launched multiple suicide drones in an attack on an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) base in northern Israel on Tuesday morning in response to the IDF neutralizing top Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists in recent days.
&#8220;Hezbollah acknowledges the deaths of four members so far today, including drone commander Ali Hussein Burji,&#8221; said Joe Truzman, research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). &#8220;It&#8217;s becoming clear in the last days that Israel has an intelligence advantage over Hezbollah as commanders are being eliminated in strikes. This is not an ideal situation for [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah.&#8221;
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The strike to kill Barji took place in the town of Khirbet Selm near a funeral procession for another top Hezbollah commander, Wissam al-Tawil, whom Israel terminated in an airstrike on Monday.
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Al-Tawil, the top commander of Hezbollah&#8217;s elite Radwan force, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-hezbollah-official-killed-in-airstrike">killed</a> when a missile blew up an SUV he was riding in. The Radwan force exists with the goal of being able to infiltrate and overrun Israel’s northern border.
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Video of the aftermath showed the vehicle was destroyed by the airstrike, which occurred just a few miles away from the Israeli border. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that it had conducted “a series of strikes” in the area against Hezbollah targets but did not comment specifically on the strike that hit Tawil.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/world/middleeast/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-commander.html">noted</a> that Tawil’s death was a significant blow to Hezbollah as Al Manar, a Hezbollah-owned Lebanese broadcaster, and media controlled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) showed images of Tawil alongside Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian general and terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani.
“Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into a totally unnecessary war,” said Eylon Levy, an Israeli government spokesman. “We are now at a fork in the road. Either Hezbollah backs off, hopefully as part of a diplomatic solution, or we will push it away.”

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Alleged Israeli Airstrike Kills Hezbollah Drone Commander Responsible For Attacks

The Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah said on Monday that one of its top commanders was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon.
The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-hezbollah-commander-killed-in-alleged-israeli-strike-as-border-tensions-mount/">reported</a> that Wissam al-Tawil, the top commander of the Iranian-backed terror group’s elite Radwan force, was killed when a missile blew up an SUV he was riding in. The Radwan force exists with the goal of being able to infiltrate and overrun Israel&#8217;s northern border.
Video of the aftermath showed the vehicle was totally destroyed from the airstrike, which occurred just a few miles away from the Israeli border. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that it had conducted “a series of strikes” in the area against Hezbollah targets but did not comment specifically on the strike that hit Tawil.
&#8220;The Radwan Force is the most immediate threat to Israel from Hezbollah right now,&#8221; said Jonathan Schanzer, FDD Senior Vice President for Research. &#8220;This targeted strike appears to be the most significant one scored by Israel against the Iran-backed group since it began attacking Israel on October 8. The question now is whether such strikes deter Hezbollah or if they increase the likelihood of escalation. Either way, Israel has little choice but to respond.&#8221;
The Islamic terrorist group has repeatedly launched small scale attacks against Israel since Hamas, an Iranian-backed Islamic terrorist group based inside Gaza, launched an unprecedented terrorist attack against Israel on October 7.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/01/08/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news#hezbollah-lebanon-strike">noted</a> that Tawil&#8217;s death was a significant blow for Hezbollah as Al Manar, a Hezbollah-owned Lebanese broadcaster, and media controlled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) showed images of Tawil alongside Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian general and terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani.
“Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into a totally unnecessary war,” said Eylon Levy, an Israeli government spokesman. “We are now at a fork in the road. Either Hezbollah backs off, hopefully as part of a diplomatic solution, or we will push it away.”

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Top Hezbollah Official Killed In Airstrike

Israel is considering launching a major military operation against Hezbollah after months of harassment and threats from the terror group, alarming some U.S. officials.
Hezbollah has threatened Israel on its northern border from Lebanon for months since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, murdering roughly 1,200 people and taking hostage hundreds more. Warnings from Israel that it intends to put a stop to Hezbollah’s threats have alarmed the Biden administration, which fears a growing Middle East conflict, according to The Washington Post.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has warned in recent days that Israel’s patience for Hezbollah is wearing thin and that a major military operation may be launched soon. Since Hamas’ October 7 invasion, Israel has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/middleeast/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-tiberias-evacuation-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evacuated</a> tens of thousands of Israelis from its northern border with Lebanon over the threat posed by Hezbollah.
“The priority isn’t to get into a war” with Hezbollah, Gallant told <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israels-yoav-gallant-we-are-fighting-an-axis-not-a-single-enemy-2408ef96" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a> in an interview published Monday. “Eighty-thousand people need to be able to go back to their homes safely.”
“We are willing to sacrifice,” he continued. “They see what is happening in Gaza. They know we can copy-paste to Beirut,” the capital of Lebanon.
The Biden administration is reportedly warning Israel against taking significant action against Hezbollah, warning that a U.S. intelligence assessment found that if Israel were to expand its military operations to Lebanon as well as Gaza, success would be difficult for Israel to achieve.
Biden administration officials believe Israel’s signals against Hezbollah may be a result of political pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu may push military action against Hezbollah in order to recover politically from the fallout over a failure to prevent the invasion of October 7, according to Biden administration concerns shared with the Post.
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Gallant has characterized October 7 as a turning point in Israeli national security and military policy.
“October 7 was the bloodiest day for Jewish people since 1945,” Gallant told WSJ. “The world needs to understand. This is different.”
According to the Israeli defense minister, Israel is facing more than Hamas. Israel is facing a network of militant terror groups backed by Iran, and the fight to secure Israel’s borders from terrorists may be much larger than Gaza and go on much longer than many expect.
“My basic view: We are fighting an axis, not a single enemy,” Gallant said. “Iran is building up military power around Israel in order to use it.”

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Report: Biden Admin Warns Israel Against Taking Major Military Action Against Hezbollah

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Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism and the backers of the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon, is reportedly <a href="https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/rkz11d12dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speeding up</a> its transfer of precision weapons to Hezbollah as Israel is rumored to be preparing for a war to protect itself in the north.
According to <a href="https://missilethreat.csis.org/country/hezbollahs-rocket-arsenal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Missile Threat,</a> Hezbollah already has 130,000 rockets, and is considered the world’s most heavily armed non-state actor. As recently as Thursday, Hezbollah <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-launches-widespread-strikes-in-south-lebanon-after-barrages-of-hezbollah-rockets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> 50 rockets and missiles at northern Israel.
“We can no longer accept [Hezbollah’s elite] Radwan force sitting on the border,&#8221; Tzachi Hanegbi, Israel’s national security adviser, told Channel 12 earlier this month. “We can no longer accept Resolution 1701 [a 2006 U.N. Security Council resolution that bans Hezbollah from being within nearly 20 miles of Israel&#8217;s border] not being implemented.”
“The situation in the north must be changed. And it will change. If Hezbollah agrees to change things via diplomacy, very good, if not — we will have to act,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We will have to ensure that the situation in the north is different.&#8221;
A <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/382742" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent poll</a> found a huge majority of Israelis (68%) support a military operation to remove Hezbollah from the Israel-Lebanon border.
At the beginning of November, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech in which he declared that there was no outside involvement from other governments in the Hamas massacre of Israelis on October 7, calling the United States “the Great Satan,” and made the incredible claim that the Israeli themselves were the perpetrators of the horrific, gruesome actions taken by the forces of Hamas.
“From the very first hours, it was clear that the enemy was lost &#8230; you know it was the Sabbath, perfect timing by the commanders,” said Nasrallah, bragging that the attack took place on the Jewish Sabbath.
Speaking of the Israelis, he continued, “It took them hours to come out; they came out in hysterical state, angry and in insane fashion.&#8221;
He then claimed that the atrocities committed by Hamas had actually been perpetrated by Israelis, stating &#8220;That’s why when they had to recapture the settlements within Gaza envelope, they perpetrated massacres against the Israeli settlers. Not Hamas.”
Speaking of Iran, which funds his terrorist group as well as Hamas, Nasrallah insisted, “They do not exercise any form of authority or mandate on these factions or in their command.&#8221;
“We must establish this fact,” he declared. “The United States is totally responsible for the war raging in Gaza&#8230; It is the United States, proving once again, as described by [former Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah] Khomeini, it is the greatest Satan, the great devil.”
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Iran Speeding Up Transfer Of Precision Weapons To Terrorist Group Hezbollah: Report

Former President Donald Trump laid out his foreign policy differences with President Joe Biden Wednesday, blasting his political rival for allowing Iran to “get rich” under his watch.
Trump spoke with <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/newsmaker-interview-trump-puts-iran-europeans-and-antisemites" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Just the News</a> in a wide-ranging interview that touched on the increasingly unstable Middle East and Iran’s involvement with terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas. During his interview, Trump focused on his foreign policy record, saying that Biden’s strategy has created chaos in the Middle East and put the U.S. in an undesirable position. 
“Iran was allowed to get rich because Joe Biden allowed them to,” Trump said. “So he could say whatever he wants. But he&#8217;s the reason for this. He&#8217;s an incompetent president. He&#8217;s a compromised president, totally compromised. But he allowed them to get rich.&#8221;
“But worse than being rich, because of the money, because of what they have, they will have within a short period of time nuclear weapons. And that is never something that can be allowed to happen,” Trump added. 
Under the Trump administration, the U.S. pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Deal, which <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-nuclear-deal-explained-11610564572" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave</a> Iran access to over $100 billion in oil revenues that were previously frozen by U.S. sanctions. Trump had sought to restrict Iran’s missile program and push the Tehran regime to sever its ties to terrorism, but Iran refused to negotiate. Shortly after Biden won back the White House for Democrats, however, the administration began working out a new Iran Nuclear Deal.
Iran backs terrorist groups such as Hamas and the Houthis, which are actively warring against Israel. The Houthis have also recently targeted ships in the Middle East, and the U.S. has <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/witnesses-report-2-explosions-off-sinai-coast-strange-object-falling-into-water/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot down</a> at least 12 drones and five missiles launched by the terrorist group. 
Earlier this week, Iran appeared to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-and-hamas-feud-over-what-fueled-oct-7-massacre-of-israelis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claim responsibility</a> for Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, during which terrorists brutally murdered at least 1,200 people. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reportedly said the terrorist attack on Israel was a response to the assassination of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by the U.S. in 2020, which was carried out under the orders of Trump. 
“Iran was broke. They didn&#8217;t have any money to get around. I put sanctions on. I put everything on, and told countries, China, many countries, India, France, ‘don&#8217;t buy oil … you buy any oil, we&#8217;re not going to do business with you. And we&#8217;re going to put tariffs on all the products that do get through, We&#8217;re not going to do business,&#8217;” said Trump, the frontrunner in the Republican presidential primary. 
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“They didn&#8217;t have money for Hezbollah,” he continued. “And this would have never happened, it also wouldn&#8217;t have happened because they knew the consequences would have been much different than what you see right now.”

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Trump Outlines Stark Contrast With Biden On Middle East Policy, Says Iran Got Rich ‘Because Joe Biden Allowed Them To’

Trump Outlines Stark Contrast With Biden On Middle East Policy, Says Iran Got Rich 'Because Joe Biden Allowed Them To'

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