Iran threatens Israel with harsh retaliation in the event of an attack on its oil facilities

Just a week after launching a missile attack on him, Tehran proceeded to new threats warning Israel against possible new attacks. A possible new Israel attack aimed at Iran’s infrastructure will cause harsh retaliation, Foreign Minister Abbas Aragci said warning Israel not to attack his country. “We recommend to the Zionist regime (Israel) not to test the determination of the Islamic Republic. If there is an attack on our country, our response will be fiercer,” Aragchi said in a televised speech. Any attack aimed at Iranian infrastructure will be answered with harsh retaliation and “our enemies know what kind of targets within the Zionist regime (Israel) we have access”, he added. Aragci will visit Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region, beginning today, to have talks on regional issues and to find a way to stop Israel’s “crimes” in Gaza and Lebanon, broadcast the Iranian news agency ISNA. Gulf countries have attempted to show Iran their neutrality in its conflict with Israel, as sources told Reuters last week. Fears of an Israeli attack on Iranian oil On Sunday, Iran’s oil minister went to Karg Island, the Gulf, which hosts the country’s largest oil terminal, and had talks with a commander, as broadcast by the Shana ministry’s news website, due to concern about the possibility of an Israeli blow to Iranian oil facilities. The American news website Axios invoked Israeli officials according to which Iranian oil installations may be a possible target, which would constitute a serious escalation that could launch global oil prices. On Friday US President Joe Biden said he would consider alternatives instead of hurting Iranian oil facilities, if he were in Israel’s position, and added that Israel in his opinion has not yet concluded how he would respond to Iran. Meanwhile, the Israeli army put more pressure on Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah by killing its headquarters commander with a blow to the Beirut region, the military said in its announcement today. If confirmed, Suhail Hussein Husseini’s death will result from Israel’s strategy to bring about significant blows by killing leaders and commanders of Hezbollah and Hamas’ allied battle against Israel in Gaza for a year. In the biggest blow against Hezbollah for decades Israel killed Hassan Nasrala’s leader by bombing in the southern suburbs of Beirut last month. The attacks caused concern that the US, Israel’s closest ally, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, would be lured into a total war in the Middle East oil tanker. The tension between the sworn enemies Iran and Israel is at its peak as the perennial shadow war and killings turned into open conflicts that have led the region to the brink of total war. Israel is studying possible response scenarios to the ballistic missile attacks launched by Tehran last week as retaliation to Israel’s military operation in Lebanon.