Salami made the statement on Thursday after unprecedented attacks in the previous two days on Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies, which killed 37 people and wounded more than 2,9

Israel will face "a crushing response from the axis of resistance", Iran's Revolutionary Guards Commander Hossein Salami told Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday according to state media, after attacks on Lebanese Hezbollah's communication devices.

Amid Israel’s effort to return tens of thousands of its citizens to their homes in the north, the Jewish state reportedly launched an operation to knock out Hezbollah’s infrastructure in Lebanon.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Commander Hossein Salami warned of a strong retaliatory response against Israel after attacks on Hezbollah's communication devices. Lebanon and Hezbollah blamed Israel for the attacks,

The immediate context for the attacks is the “low-intensity war” between Israel and Hezbollah since October 7, with the cycle of violence triggered by Hamas’s mass killings inside Israel and then the Israeli military operations killing more than 41,000 people in Gaza.

Pager blasts killed 12 and injured more than 2,000 on Tuesday before walkie-talkies detonated on Wednesday, killing 20 and injuring at least 450. The attacks targeted members of H

In Lebanon, exploding pagers and booby-trapped walkie-talkies – believed to be set off by Israel – have rattled Hezbollah and captured the world’s attention. What do they portend?

The source of Wednesday’s explosions was not immediately clear but the blasts came a day after thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah blew up across Lebanon.

But Israel rarely takes responsibility for such attacks, and its military declined to comment on the strike in Lebanon.