—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇷 IRGC Navy: ‘The Iranian Armed Forces are now in control of the Strait of Hormuz. All vessels must obtain verbal permission from the IRGC Navy to proceed through the Strait, or they will be targeted and destroyed’

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—❗️🇮🇷 Hezbollah statement:

‘With its blind hatred, its habitual criminality, and its boundless brutality, which has become ingrained in its nature, the Israeli enemy committed a series of massacres today against innocent civilians. It targeted civilian areas in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the capital, Sidon, southern Lebanon, and the Bekaa Valley with dozens of brutal airstrikes, leaving hundreds of martyrs and wounded, including children, women, and the elderly.

This barbaric aggression, which at every stage constitutes war crimes and acts of genocide by targeting crowded civilian areas, markets, and shops during peak hours, is nothing but a desperate attempt to take revenge on civilians after all attempts to break and subdue this proud people have failed. Our honorable people and the sons of this land have proven that the brutality of the aggression has only increased their steadfastness, resilience, and adherence to the path of resistance, no matter the immense sacrifices they have made.

This unbridled aggression is a clear expression of the enemy's frustration after its resounding failure to achieve any of its objectives and plans on various fronts. It reveals its vulnerability to defeat, its inability to alter the equations imposed by the steadfastness of the Iranian and Lebanese peoples, and reflects the state of collapse, confusion, and disarray plaguing this beleaguered entity and its defeated army, battered by the blows of the resistance fighters.

We affirm that the blood of the martyrs and the wounded will not be shed in vain. Today's massacres, like all acts of aggression and brutal crimes, underscore our natural and legal right to resist the occupation and respond to its aggression. They will only strengthen our resolve to resist and confront the enemy, to deter its aggression, and to defend our people and our homeland, protecting our security in the face of this ongoing aggression.’

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