Israeli Psy-War Aimed at Downplaying Hezbollah Strikes: Iran’s Envoy
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Zionist regime has resorted to psychological warfare to whitewash its humiliating failure to fend off the military attacks that the Lebanese Hezbollah launched early Sunday, Iran’s ambassador to Beirut said.
In comments at a televised interview on Wednesday night, Mojtaba Amani said the Israeli regime was completely caught by surprise when Hezbollah carried out retaliatory strikes in the early hours of August 25.
The Iranian ambassador said the Zionist regime, which always boasts about its intelligence capabilities, was totally surprised and suffered a serious blow to its prestige after the operation by Hezbollah.
Amani noted that the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon a quarter of an hour prior to Hezbollah’s operation got nowhere, as the Zionist regime failed to make a correct prediction of Hezbollah’s response and could not target a single fighter of the Lebanese resistance group.
“The (Israeli) regime was certainly confused by Hezbollah’s move. The attack (by Hezbollah) has obviously accomplished its objective. With a psychological war, they (Zionists) are attempting to make up for their great weakness that has major influence on the regime’s measures and its deterrence,” he added.
The psychological warfare was the only thing Israeli could do, Amani stated.
Hezbollah said its forces gave an "initial response" to the assassination of senior commander Fuad Shukr in the early hours of Sunday by launching a large number of drones deep into the occupied Palestinian territories against the Israeli targets.
Fuad Shukr, a senior commander of Hezbollah, was martyred in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut neighborhood on July 30.
Hours after Shukr’s assassination, another assassination operation by the Israeli regime targeted Ismail Haniyeh, chief of the political bureau of Hamas, in Tehran.