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.

An Israeli citizen has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in a plot by Iran to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials, Israel's security services say. Israeli police and domestic intelligence said the man was smuggled twice into Iran and received payment to carry out "missions".

"God is almighty and avenging," Masoud Pezeshkian said, following the attacks with electronic devices that killed dozens and wounded thousands.

Iran condemned attacks in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday that involved exploding communications devices, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said in a post on the X social media platform on Wednesday,

Iran threatened to retaliate after its ambassador was wounded in a wave of explosions that targeted pagers and other wireless devices in Lebanon, fanning fears of a new wave of tit-for-tat violence in the Middle East.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday condemned the West and the coordinated explosions of hundreds of portable radio receivers in Lebanon as a "disgrace." Pezeshkian levelled serious accusations at Israel's ally,