"No answer. The government is not reacting to this. I also asked the federal government what it thought about the statement [by Christian Democratic Union MP] Roderich Kiesewetter that it did not matter whether Ukraine had carried out these attacks or not. Ukraine's stability is above all. Again, no answer," Kotre said.

“Certainly, there is good reason to believe that there has been diplomatic approval… military, most probably, and intelligence cooperation,” he said. US interest in an operation targeting Nasrallah “might have to do with the protection of the role and power that Israel projects in the region,” the pundit speculated.

“It is no secret that Israel enjoys bipartisan support in the US Senate and Congress. It is also an important US ally, and carries out its dirty job in the region. It helps the US maintain economic, diplomatic, and political hegemony […] keeps the region in turmoil... It doesn’t allow for the unification of the region, doesn’t allow for the region to cooperate with each other… become a regional power that could endanger the interests of the US and the EU,” he underscored.

"We moved towards [reunification] through years and difficult trials. We knew in what unbearable conditions, with constant shelling and blockade, Donbass lived for eight long years, what oppression the inhabitants of Novorossiya were subjected to. They stood up against the armed coup d'etat in Kiev, fought back against the neo-Nazi dictatorship that wanted to tear them away from their historical homeland, from Russia," Putin said.

"Iran will not allow anyone to threaten its territorial integrity," - Kanaani stated.

"If the Israelis want to enter on a ground offensive, the forces of resistance are ready in order to begin a ground confrontation and a ground battle. We have prepared, and we are ready. With God's support and with faith in God, we are confident that the Israeli enemy will not achieve its objectives, and we will be victorious after this battle," Hezbollah's Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem stated.

When armed with a JDAM kit, BLU-109s are transformed from a ‘dumb’ free-falling bomb into a ‘smart’ GPS-guided weapon which can communicate with the aircraft carrying them. JDAM-equipped BLU-109s are officially known as the GBU-31(V)3/B.

“I don't see this happening […] unless there is a serious revolution in Iraq itself or in the larger region that sees the US leave from strategic and very lucrative arenas for American corporations to make money,” Blumi said, commenting on the ambiguous announcement of a partial drawdown of US forces from Iraq.

“The US administration decided to invade Iraq in 2003 on false pretenses related to weapons of mass destruction which were not found,” Allazzeh recalled, adding that the promises made by Washington about liberating Iraqis and spreading democracy were never delivered. Instead, Washington is “leaving…behind them an armed conflict among tens of groups, severe corruption and a flabby administrative system.”

“Let’s be clear, the US does not want to totally leave Iraq. It will always want to keep a post inside Iraq – to monitor Iran’s activities in Iraq, Syria, their implication for Israel and to support [allied and pro-American] elements inside Iraq,” Askari, a professor emeritus at George Washington University, said.