Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei issues order for Iran to strike Israel: Why did Israel assassinate Hamas and Hezbollah leaders?
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 1 August 2024
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Summary
On Tuesday, Israel assassinated the Hezbollah leader it holds responsible for the Golan Heights massacre. Yesterday, Iran’s Ali Khamenei ordered a retaliation against Israel for the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran. Now we are waiting for the response of Iran and Hezbollah to Israel’s latest targeted killings. In today’s article, we discuss praying for our enemies to the Prince of Peace.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. It's Thursday, August 1st, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison |
| 0:09.7 | Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Kamani |
| 0:18.2 | issued an order yesterday for Iran to strike Israel directly in retaliation |
| 0:23.8 | for the killing and Tehran of Hamas leader Esmail Hanayi. According to the New York Times, |
| 0:29.9 | it is unclear how forceful Iran will respond and whether they will calibrate their attack to |
| 0:34.7 | avoid escalation. Iranian military commanders are considering a |
| 0:38.7 | combination attack of drones and missiles on military targets in the vicinity of Haifa and Tel Aviv, |
| 0:45.8 | but they would reportedly make a point of avoiding civilian targets. Israel also killed |
| 0:51.1 | Fuyad Chakra, a senior Hezbollah commander they hold responsible for the |
| 0:56.1 | Golan Heights Massacre. They claimed that Shukra had been orchestrating rocket and UAV attacks |
| 1:01.7 | against Israel since October the 7th and was involved in developing and integrating precision-guided |
| 1:07.5 | missiles that have the potential to threaten the lives of millions of Israeli |
| 1:12.0 | civilians. Multiple government and news outlets warn that these strikes will delay talks over a ceasefire |
| 1:18.2 | in Gaza and could intensify the regional war. Why then does Israel do this? Israel said this morning |
| 1:25.2 | that they killed top Hamas military commander |
| 1:27.8 | Mohammed D.F in a July air strike eliminating a planner of the October 7th atrocities. |
| 1:34.3 | The IDF has carried out numerous assassinations of enemy leaders over the years, |
| 1:39.1 | including Sheikh Ahmed Yasin, the founder of Hamas, who was killed by an Israeli missile in 2004. |
| 1:45.8 | Danielle Plectka, a distinguished senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, reports |
| 1:50.9 | in foreign policy that targeting senior leaders critical to an enemy program makes |
| 1:56.1 | strategic sense from Israel's perspective. |
| 1:58.9 | She explains, even among sophisticated democracies, |
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