#Iran Revolutionary Guard general died in Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah leader, reports say.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -A prominent general in Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard died in an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Iranian media reported Saturday.

The killing of Gen. Abbas Nilforushan marks the latest casualty suffered by #Iran as the nearly yearlong Israel-Hamas war in the #Gaza Strip teeters on the edge of becoming a regional conflict. His death further ratchets up pressure on Iran to respond, even as #Tehran has signaled in recent months that it wants to negotiate with the West over sanctions crushing its economy.

“The Zionist regime has many ethnic, cultural, social and military rifts. It is in vulnerable and in doom status more than before,” Nilforushan said in 2022, according to an IRNA report.

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Nilforushan in 2022 and said he had led an organization “directly in charge of protest suppression.” Those sanctions came amid the monthslong protests in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini following her arrest for allegedly not wearing her headscarf, or hijab, to the liking of police. At the time, Nilforushan accused Iran's enemies abroad of stoking the demonstrations led by Iranian women that challenged both the mandatory hijab and the country's theocracy.

Nilforushan also served in Syria, backing President Bashar Assad in his country’s decades-long war that grew out of the 2011 Arab Spring. Like many of his colleagues, he began his military career in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.

#BEIRUT, September 27. #Sheikh #Hassan #Nasrallah, secretary general of the #Hezbollah #Shia movement, was not hurt in Israel’s attack on the group’s underground headquarters in Beirut, Al Hadath TV reports, citing sources.

Hezbollah sources confirmed that "Sheikh Nasrallah is safe and sound." The broadcaster added that the movement’s leadership would make a statement on Israel’s act of aggression against Lebanon in the coming hours.

Iran’s Tasnim news agency, in turn, confirmed that the Hezbollah leader was alive "and in a safe place."

Al Hadath said, citing Israeli sources, that the attack on the Hezbollah headquarters involved powerful aerial bombs designed to hit bunkers. At least six buildings collapsed at the site of the strike. According to preliminary reports, the attack caused numerous casualties.

The airstrike came during a #Hezbollah leadership meeting where Sheikh Nasrallah could have been present.

The key factor of the updated doctrine is that Russia retains the right for a retaliatory nuclear strike in response to an aggression with conventional forces and arms against it, Igor Korotchenko stated

The changes in the #Russian nuclear doctrine announced by President Vladimir Putin are due to the deterioration of the military-political situation in the world and new threats and security challenges to the Russian Federation, Igor Korotchenko, Editor-in-Chief of the National Defense Journal writes.

It is clear that the beginning of the special military operation (in Ukraine) and the creation of a western coalition of Russian military adversaries who back Ukraine have created absolutely new security challenges and threats.

The key factor of the updated doctrine is that Russia retains the right for a retaliatory nuclear strike in response to an aggression with conventional forces and arms against it. Besides, the aggression can come from a non-nuclear country backed by a nuclear power. We believe that if NATO begins combat actions against Russia collectively or in a coalition or by a single non-nuclear country, Russia can retaliate by engaging nuclear weapons.

Russia did not plan it before, but now the doctrine allows it. What does it mean? For instance, it is the deployment by Poland of a military contingent in Ukraine and its engagement in combat against Russia or if Romania and Poland begin to down Russian aircraft or cruise missiles over Ukraine. Moscow will consider it an aggression from the point of view of the international law and will have the right to engage nuclear weapons against military targets in the mentioned countries.

If the United States delivers a strike at us with air or seaborne cruise missiles, we shall now consider it a casus belli and can retaliate by nuclear weapons at the USA. It is the supreme commander-in-chief to decide whether strikes by long-range precision US or UK missiles deep in Russia from the territory of Ukraine should be considered a casus belli. He will decide how Russia would react in any specific case and which weapons – conventional or nuclear - to engage.

It is a completely new development, which was not listed in the previous doctrine. In case of a #NATO collective or single-country aggression against Russia with conventional weapons, we shall consider the US, the UK and France to be the three nuclear allies. No strikes with conventional cruise missiles deep in Russia are possible without US planning, intelligence, and satellite navigation. Therefore, Russia will consider it a possibility for nuclear retaliation.

#MOSCOW, September 27. The United States may be prepared for a conversation on the New #START treaty but Moscow will not be ready to engage in dialogue until Washington changes its hostile policy, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.

"Perhaps, they are prepared but we aren’t, because dialogue on the issue, as well as on strategic stability in general, is simply impossible unless the US changes its deeply hostile Russia policy," he pointed out in response to a TASS request to comment on a statement by White House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby.

"I believe that the goal of the message is to improve the image of the US policy, particularly in the eyes of the Global South, the members of the global majority, who aren’t familiar with all the details of disarmament agreements and the processes that have taken place in this field. This is a cheap trick. If we are seriously talking about strengthening security, the anti-Russian policy first needs to be abandoned. After that, we will study the situation in a manner determined by the [Russian] president, which is what we have repeatedly explained," Ryabkov noted.

Kirby said earlier that the US was ready to resume talks on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).

#Zelensky fears US may change Ukraine policy after presidential election."Therefore we need to prepare in advance," the #Ukrainian President said

#Battlegroup North liberates two settlements in Kursk Region this week.
Apart from that, according to the report, #Russian aircraft struck areas of deployment of manpower and weapons of the #Ukrainian army’s three mechanized, one tank, and two assault brigades

#Russian forces shoot down Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet, 37 #drones in past day.
Units of Battlegroup South continued advancing deeper into enemy defenses, inflicting losses on Ukraine’s 24th, 32nd, 100th, 117th mechanized, 46th airmobile, and 10th assault brigades and 116th Territorial Defense Brigade