Iran sounds stern warning against aggression

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday said the country was prepared to deliver a response beyond its adversaries’ imagination to any attack on its territorial integrity.  
“Threats of a wider war or assassination would not force the Iranian nation to abandon its rights and interests,” he added.
Speaking at the start of an in-person and virtual parliamentary session, Ghalibaf recalled the 4 November 1964 protest by the late Imam Khomeini against the Capitulation Law, which granted privileges to American personnel in Iran. 
He stressed that until the US changes its behavior, abandons its bullying and greed, and makes tangible and practical amends on the ground for its violated commitments, none of its claims will carry the slightest credibility for the Islamic Republic.
“It was the US that, through its miscalculations and its war against Iran, plunged itself into a quagmire. Now it is the Americans who must take the necessary steps to extricate themselves,” he also said.
Iran’s Army air defense force has shot down a US Lucas drone over the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, according to the Army.
The drone was struck and destroyed on Sunday by air defense systems operating under the country’s integrated air defense network, the Army said.
Earlier, the Army chief said that Iran has assessed its enemy’s capabilities and was prepared for asymmetric warfare and the equipment required for it.
Meanwhile, after Saudi authorities announced the partial resumption of operations at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree early on Sunday renewed a warning to airlines, airport staff and travellers against using it, saying it remained a “military target” and would “never be safe”.
Saudi Arabia reopened its main airport for international flights, more than two weeks after deadly strikes by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels knocked the facility out of service. Earlier Sunday, the kingdom said it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile and a drone fired by the Houthis. 
The King Khalid International Airport said it has opened terminals 1 and 2 for domestic and international flights, starting Sunday. The announcement came as the Houthis in Yemen kept firing drones and missiles toward the Saudi capital.
Saudi military spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki said air defenses intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile and a drone fired by the Houthis toward Riyadh early Sunday, as well as 10 ballistic missiles toward the southern region.
In early October, Houthi strikes hit a complex housing two other terminals, killing 17 people and wounding over 330.
On the other hand, the Israeli military pressed ahead with a massive military operation in the occupied West Bank on Sunday that has displaced hundreds of Palestinians and placed major restrictions on movement in response to a gun attack last week that killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others.
The operation, focused on the city of Hebron, the site of Friday’s attack, came as Israel enters the final days before a tense election, which is largely seen as a referendum on current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership and security policies during the past three years of war.
In new measures, the army said that most Palestinian workers with permits will not be allowed to enter Israeli West Bank settlements on Sunday and Monday, and crossings into Israel will remain closed until after Israel’s elections on Tuesday.
The military said it operated in more than 400 different locations over the weekend and arrested 40 Palestinians it claimed were affiliated with the Hamas or Islamic Jihad militant groups. It said the operation was continuing Sunday. 
Israeli strikes in Gaza killed seven people and wounded eight on Sunday, according to Palestinian hospital officials.
A pair of strikes in Gaza City killed four people, while two brothers were killed in the southern city of Khan Younis. Another person was killed in the central town of Deir al-Balah. The deaths were confirmed by officials from Shifa, Hamad, Nasser and Al-Aqsa hospitals, as well as an American field hospital.