- Is Iran's missile and drone attack on Israel legitimate?
What was Iran's Main Goal of this attack?
Retaliatory attack of Iran on Israel
Israeli attack on the Iranian Consulate in Damascus:
On 1 April 2024, an airstrike allegedly by Israel according to Iran destroyed the Iranian consulate annex building adjacent to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria. It killed16 people, including a senior Quds Force commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, and seven other IRGC officers. Two civilians were also killed in the attack.[1]
Iran's Retaliatory attack on Israel:
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated that:
in response to numerous crimes of the Zionist regime, including an attack on the Iranian Embassy's consular section in Damascus. The martyrdom of our country's military commanders and advisers in Syria. "Dozens of missiles and drones hit Israel.
The IRGC also stressed in his statement that:
any US and Zionist threat from the origin of any country will be faced with the reciprocal response of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the source of the threat.[2]
Legitimacy of retaliatory attack:
The Holy Qur'an, as the first source of Islamic law, has considered defense as a legitimate right of Muslims and has emphasized it in various places. Here are two verses as examples:
Quran:
The Holly Quran as the main source of Islamic law, in Surah al-Baqara, verse 194 says:
If any one aggresses against you, so aggress against him with the likeness of that which he has aggressed against you.[3]
The Quran also says in Surah Haj, verse 39:
Permission (to fight) is given to those upon whom war is made because they are oppressed, and most surely Allah is well able to assist them.[4]
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