Iran warns Israel of stronger retaliation

Iran's foreign minister warned Israel against launching an attack, saying any strike on Iranian infrastructure would be met with a stronger retaliation.

Iran attacked Israel last week with a salvo of missiles. Israel has vowed to retaliate.

"We recommend the Zionist regime (Israel) not to test the resolution of the Islamic Republic. If any attack against our country takes place, our response will be more powerful," Araqchi said in a televised speech.

Any attack on Iran's infrastructure will be met with a stronger retaliation, and "our enemies know what kind of targets inside the Zionist Regime (Israel) are in our reach," Araqchi added.

U.S. President Joe Biden said that he did not think Israel had yet decided how to respond.

Meanwhile On the eve of the October 7 anniversary, a massive Israeli airstrike shook Beirut, leaving behind widespread destruction in the city's southern suburbs.

Footage taken shows the extent of the damage, with remains of some buildings reduced to rubble and debris filling the streets of Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, where Hezbollah is headquartered.

The regional tensions triggered a year ago by Palestinian armed group Hamas's attack on southern Israel have spiraled to a string of Israeli operations by land and air over Lebanon and direct attacks by Iran onto Israeli military installations.

Israel's military said it had begun ground operations in southwest Lebanon, expanding its incursions to a new zone a year after exchanges of fire began with armed group Hezbollah and amid pleas by the U.N. for a diplomatic solution.

The Israeli military eliminated Suhail Hussein Husseini, the commander of Hezbollah's headquarters, in a strike in the area of Beirut, it said in a statement.

If confirmed, Husseini’s death would be a result of Israel's strategy of inflicting major blows by assassinating leaders and commanders of Hezbollah and its ally Hamas, which has been fighting Israel in Gaza for a year.