Lebanese Sunni Islamic Scholar Sheikh Hassan Al-Moraib: If Iran Had Launched Missiles at Israel Directly on October 7 Like It Is Doing Now in Defense of Its Nuclear Program, Gaza and Lebanon Would Not
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