All options conceivable

Rockets from Lebanon hit Israel

Israeli army tanks are stationed in the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon.

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After the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, all options are conceivable according to the Iranian leadership - including an even more extensive Middle East war.

Everyone should be aware that the situation is extremely explosive and that anything is possible at any time (...) including war," warned Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi on Sunday. Meanwhile, Israel has killed another senior Hezbollah member: Nabil Kaouk. There was initially no official confirmation from the other side that Kaouk had been killed. However, supporters have been publishing statements of mourning since Saturday.

According to Araqchi, Israel has caused an international crisis and put the entire world on alert. This is why Iran has also called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, the chief diplomat said in an interview with Iranian reporters in New York. Nasrallah's blood had not been shed in vain and Israel would regret the act, Araqchi said.

According to observers, Iran's reaction to the killing of Nasrallah has so far been rather restrained. There has been no talk of a retaliatory strike. Tehran currently seems to prefer to discredit Israel diplomatically on the international stage.

Rockets from Lebanon hit Israel
According to the Israeli army, around eight rockets fired from Lebanon hit the area of the city of Tiberias in northern Israel on Sunday morning. The projectiles landed in "open terrain", it said. There were no casualties. According to the military, an Israeli missile ship also intercepted a drone that was traveling from the Red Sea towards the port city of Eilat. Prior to this, there had been an air alert in the city on Israel's southern tip. The so-called Islamic Resistance in Iraq declared that its fighters had attacked an "important target" in Eilat with drones.

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In the early hours of Sunday morning, the Israeli military again attacked dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. The targets included launchers aimed at Israel, according to the Israeli armed forces. These included launching pads aimed at Israeli territory, weapons depots and other "terrorist infrastructure" of the pro-Iranian militia.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday

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Iran called on the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting
Iran called on the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting. "The Islamic Republic of Iran strongly warns against any attack on its diplomatic missions and representatives that violates the fundamental principle of inviolability of diplomatic and consular facilities and emphasizes that it will not tolerate a repetition of such aggression," Iranian UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani wrote in a letter to the 15-member body. "Iran will not hesitate to use its inherent rights under international law."

Netanyahu speaks of "historic turning point"
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran against an attack on his country. "And to the regime of the ayatollahs I say: whoever attacks us, we will attack them," the threatening words rang out in Tel Aviv. "There is no place in Iran or the Middle East that Israel's long arm cannot reach," he continued. "These are momentous days. We are at a historic turning point," said Israel's head of government.

USA orders departure of its diplomats in Lebanon
The US government has ordered the departure of its diplomats in Lebanon. The reason for this was the uncertain and unpredictable situation in Beirut. Israel had committed a "blatant act of terrorist aggression against residential areas in Beirut by using US-supplied thousand-pound bunker busters", according to the letter from Iran's UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani to the most powerful UN body.