Ali Akbar Velayati, one of the most influential figures in the Islamic Republic of Iran:

**“The miscalculation in Beirut has brought patience to an end, and the order has been issued. Zero hour has arrived, and the launchers are being prepared.**

**Hezbollah is a part of the body of the Axis of Resistance. If the fire of aggression in Lebanon is not extinguished, the two powerful geographic arms - Hormuz and Bab al-Mandeb - will squeeze your economic arteries until the point of strategic suffocation.”**