DUBAI (Reuters) – Israel is crossing Tehran’s red lines, and the situation is becoming serious, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader said on Friday, after Israel attacked Tehran-backed Hezbollah’s central headquarters in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
A senior Israeli official told reporters that Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was the target of the strike.
“The assassinations will not solve Israel’s problem. … With the assassination of resistance leaders, others will take their place,” Ali Larijani told Iran’s state TV.
A senior Iranian security official told Reuters earlier that Tehran is checking the status of Nasrallah. A source close to Hezbollah told Reuters that Nasrallah was alive.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned the attack as a “clear and undeniable war crime that revealed once again the nature of state terrorism of the Zionist regime (Israel)”, Iranian state media reported.
(Reporting by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Leslie Adler and Alistair Bell)
