The Iranians wavered on Sunday between fear of escalation and pride in his country’s military capabilitiesafter the attack launched by the Islamic Republic against Israel on Saturday.
The drone and missile attack targeted two military centers that were used to launch a bombing attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1.
The Islamic Republic blamed Israel for the attack, in which seven Revolutionary Guards were killed, two of them generals of the Quds Force, its foreign operations arm.
In Tehran some Iranians expressed pride and joy at the first attack launched by Iran from its territory against Israel and others fear an unstoppable escalation of the war between the two countries that polarizes tensions in the region.
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Israeli army spokeswoman Roni Kaplan explained what the consequences of the Iranian attack were and what the government’s response will be.
Milad, a teacher who preferred not to reveal his surname, hopes that “the conflict does not continue”because it would cause, according to him, “a destructive war” for both Israel and Iran.
“We have not yet completely rebuilt the ruins of the Iran-Iraq war [1980-1988] in the south-west of the country,” underlines the 46-year-old. “War is no joke,” he adds.
Iranian authorities, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had repeatedly threatened to do so respond to the bombing of his consulate in the Syrian capital.
Jafari, a judiciary employee who also did not want to reveal his surname, believes it is “normal” to worry about the current situation, “Especially from an economic point of view“, and cites the fear of a depreciation of the Iranian rial.
Iranians celebrate after Iran launches drone strikes against Israel; outside the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Photo by AFPCelebrations in Tehran
Hundreds of people gathered in Palestine Square in Tehranin the center of the capital, shortly after the Revolutionary Guard announced the start of Operation “Honest Promise” against Israel.
Residents celebrated the Iranian attacks by chanting “Death to Israel” and “Death to the United States,” two slogans that have been widely featured in the country since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Protesters waved flags of Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement.supported by Iran, as well as portraits of General Qassem Soleimani, the architect of Iranian military operations in the Middle East, who was killed in January 2020 in a US bombing in Iraq.
Several Iranian military leaders have been killed in Syria since the war began in early October between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the war strip, in attacks blamed on Israel.
The attack that destroyed the Iranian consulate in Syria on April 1 killed, among others, Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, two commanders of the Quds Force, the arm of the Guardians of the Revolution which focuses on Iran’s foreign operations.
“We feel extremely happy thanks to this action by the Guardians and, in fact, we feel better” today, said Ali Erfanian, a 65-year-old retired civil servant.
“We have thus helped the oppressed population of Gaza and the occupied West Bank” after six months of war in the strait and besieged Palestinian territory, he added.
“There was sadness and anger in our heartsand we always hoped for this revenge and that the Israelis would be punished for their brutality,” said Mahdi, a 35-year-old beekeeper.
AFP agency
Source: Clarin
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