Iran

Liz Wolfe | 10.4.2024 9:30 AM

Rare sermon portends bad things to come: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, led the Friday Prayer in Tehran today—a rare move—and warned that his country will strike Israel again in the future, calling the barrage of 181 ballistic missiles "completely legal and legitimate."

The last time the ayatollah led these prayers was nearly five years ago; then, as now, he graced the public with his presence primarily to engage in anti-West saber-rattling.

Overnight, Israel carried out strikes in both Lebanon and the West Bank; intelligence reports indicated that Hezbollah was meeting in a bunker south of Beirut, so Israeli strikes tracked those movements and attempted to target them. Israeli military leaders said these strikes attempted to target Hashem Safieddine, presumed to be a future Hezbollah leader taking over in place of Hassan Nasrallah, whom Israel assassinated a week ago.

In his sermon, the ayatollah said Iran would be fueled by Nasrallah's killing. "It is the duty and responsibility of all Muslims…to support Lebanon's jihad and the battle for al-Aqsa mosque," he reportedly said. "There is no doubt that the Zionists and the........

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