Reports from Israel suggest that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei plans to launch drones and ballistic missiles against Israel in the coming days.
Axios reports that the logistics for the initiative, using Iraqi territory, have started—supplementing Tehran’s support for Hamas’s October 7th pogrom and the wider antisemitic activity of the so-called Axis of Resistance. This follows an initially ‘passive’ phase of military activity in Iran, where the Islamic terror state delayed retaliating after successful Israeli air strikes.
Any Iranian attack, managed by proxy groups or at least sympathetic militias in Iraq, could be timed to coincide with the pending U.S. presidential election on November 5th. Khamenei’s decision to act would have followed his examination of the damage Israel inflicted on his missile production infrastructure and air defence systems.
In two separate rocket attacks from Hezbollah, seven people were killed in northern Israel, including an Israeli farmer and four Thai agricultural workers near Metula, close to the border with Lebanon.
