Iran’s Khamenei marks 7 October with Hebrew message

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei yesterday marked the first anniversary of the Palestinian resistance operation in southern Israel with a post in Hebrew on X.

“Al-Aqsa Flood operation set the Zionist regime back 70 years,” Khamenei’s tweet said.

In another post, this time in English, Khamenei commented on Iran’s recent missile strike on Israel, declaring: “The brilliant Operation True Promise 2 of our armed forces was completely legal and legitimate. And if necessary, this will be done again in the future.”

What our armed forces did was to inflict the minimum punishment on that usurping Zionist regime in response to its appalling crimes. It’s a bloodthirsty regime, a wolf-like regime, and the US’s rabid dog in the region.

— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) October 6, 2024

Israel has continued its genocidal war on Gaza since October last year, killing more than 42,000 Palestinians and displacing over 90 per cent of the enclave’s population, some over ten times. According to experts, the true number of those killed by Israel’s actions could be four times higher than the number declared by the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

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