Iran's central military command, Hatam al Anbiya, issued a serious warning to Israel this Monday: the inhabitants of the north of the country must leave the area if the Israeli army reactivates air attacks against southern Beirut.
In a statement disseminated by the Iranian public radio and television, IRIB, the military body stated that "given the repeated violations of the ceasefire by the (Israeli) regime, if this threat materializes, we warn the residents and military settlements in the north of the occupied territories to leave the area if they do not want to suffer damage."
In parallel, the intelligence services of the Revolutionary Guard have disseminated another note in which they emphasize that "he who sows the wind reaps the whirlwind."
In that message, Tehran maintains that "Iran considers crossing red lines in Lebanon and Gaza to imply direct war and impose a cost on its national security and the Islamic resistance, and will launch defensive operations in retaliation with disruptive measures and the opening of new fronts, in addition to preserving the situation in the Strait of Hormuz."
In the same vein, the head of Intelligence of the Revolutionary Guard Navy, Behnam Rezaei, has stressed that "Iran's patience has a limit."
Rezaei also insisted that "the Strait of Hormuz is under Iranian control. We will not allow the naval blockade to continue nor will we tolerate the escalation of tension in Lebanon. The patience of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran has a limit."
Meanwhile, in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have given the green light to new operations against Hezbollah in Beirut, in retaliation for recent attacks by the Lebanese Shiite group, including the one that killed an Israeli soldier in the area of the Crusader castle of Beaufort, taken by Israeli forces on Sunday.
Following these orders, the Israeli army has instructed the evacuation of Dahiye, the southern neighborhoods of Beirut that constitute Hezbollah's main stronghold in the Lebanese capital.
The last hostilities of great intensity were unleashed on March 2, when Hezbollah responded with a barrage of projectiles against Israel to the assassination of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during the offensive of February 28 carried out by Israel and the United States against the Asian country.
Both parties had agreed to a ceasefire in November 2024, after thirteen months of clashes linked to the October 7, 2023 attacks. However, since then Israel has maintained recurrent bombings and military presence in various locations, alleging operations against Hezbollah, while Beirut and the group itself denounce these actions as violations of the agreement.