TEHRAN: Iran said on Saturday it expects the Tehran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah to strike deeper into Israel and no longer be confined to military targets after Israel killed Hezbollah’s military commander. Hezbollah has exchanged fire almost daily with Israeli forces, saying it is targeting military positions across the border, since its Palestinian ally Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, sparking the war in Gaza. But an Israeli-claimed attack on a crowded residential area in south Beirut has changed the calculus, Iran’s mission to the United Nations said.
