New anti-Israel billboards appear in Tehran
Iranians walk near an anti-Israeli billboard depicting recent Iran’s missile attack on Israel and a sentence reading in Persian, ‘If you want war, we are the master of war,’ at the Enghelab Square in Tehran, Iran, October 3
‘The beginning of the end of the Zionist’ at the Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, October 3
Shows Iran mostly did the attack to appease its base. Also shows they've run out of patience.
France slams Israel’s decision to bar UN chief
France is the latest country to publicly back UN chief Antonio Guterres after Israel stopped him from entering the country and declared him “persona non grata”.
In a statement, France’s Foreign Ministry said it “regrets the unjustified, serious and counter-productive decision” by Israeli authorities. Paris said it had “full support for and confidence” in Guterres, adding that the United Nations played “a fundamental role in the stability” of the Middle East.
Israel has ‘a lot of options’ against Iran: Israel’s UN ambassador
Israel’s ambassador to the UN has said his country will respond to Iran’s missile attack, even though it does not want all-out war with the country.
“We have a lot of options … so it’s [up to] us to decide where and when we want to attack, but they are vulnerable. They know that,” Ambassador Danny Danon told CNN.
“We would have to make it a calculated response because we don’t want to see full war with Iran. And believe me, they also don’t want to see it,” he added. “They better look at what happened in Beirut and in Gaza before they start a war with us.”
US: Israel still undecided about how to respond to Iran
United States President Joe Biden has advised Israel to avoid striking Iranian civilian infrastructure, including oil facilities, a US official has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA).
The White House has already said it does not support an Israeli strike on nuclear facilities. “We continue our discussions with the Israelis regarding their response to the Iranian strike and they have not yet asked for our assistance,” the US official told AJA.
“We urge Israel to avoid a comprehensive regional war in its response to the Iranian missile attack,” the source added.
The US does not believe Israel has decided yet how to respond to Iran, a US official told the Reuters news agency. “We understand that they are still determining what exactly they will do,” the source said.
