{"id":255281,"date":"2024-10-04T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T11:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=255281"},"modified":"2024-10-04T07:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T11:01:51","slug":"with-extraordinary-moral-authority-irans-supreme-leader-presents-robust-justification-for-attack-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=255281","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>With Extraordinary Moral Authority Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Presents Robust Justification For Attack On Israel<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-255282\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screen-Shot-2024-10-04-at-7.00.56-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screen-Shot-2024-10-04-at-7.00.56-AM.png 488w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screen-Shot-2024-10-04-at-7.00.56-AM-246x300.png 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ssrcss-ad2rmd-Heading e10rt3ze0\">Summary<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-8rsh1g-EditorialTextWrapper edl49zf0\" data-testid=\"test-election-component-editorial-text\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-wdw1q-Stack e1y4nx260\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-1o5f7ft-BulletListContainer e5tfeyi0\">\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iran&#8217;s supreme leader has\u00a0<a class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/c39l7lv9pevt?post=asset%3Ad19ee994-9af7-44d8-b9f4-00d96ddd6a2f#post\">defended his country&#8217;s missile attack on Israel<\/a>\u00a0earlier this week as a &#8220;minimum punishment&#8221;, as he makes a rare public speech<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Israeli strikes in Lebanon intensified overnight, as the military\u00a0<a class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/c39l7lv9pevt?post=asset%3Ab983ccd8-61af-49c5-ac8d-2d8d4cebfe19#post\">told people in more than 30 villages in the south<\/a>\u00a0to immediately evacuate and head north<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A\u00a0<a class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/c39l7lv9pevt?post=asset%3Ac1239a7b-c57b-498d-98d2-61cdc5c03d86#post\">major road out of Lebanon was hit<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/c39l7lv9pevt?post=asset%3Ac96c74d6-8508-44fb-83f5-57fa54c39425#post\">video shows a large crater<\/a>\u00a0near the border crossing into Syria, where thousands of people have been fleeing<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officials tell US media\u00a0<a class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/c39l7lv9pevt?post=asset%3Afac54f3d-0a7d-4b58-9268-5eba5bfd8364#post\">a key target of the overnight bombing was Hezbollah&#8217;s next potential leader Hashem Safieddine<\/a>. His condition is unknown<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lebanon&#8217;s health ministry says 37 people have been killed in Israeli ground and air attacks in the past 24 hours; more than 2,000 people have now been killed since last October<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/c39l7lv9pevt\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/c39l7lv9pevt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}