Published October 28, 2024
Tehran will “use all available tools” to respond to Israel’s weekend attack on military targets in Iran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday.
Iran previously played down Israel’s air attack on Saturday, saying it caused only limited damage, while U.S. President Joe Biden called for a halt to escalation that has raised fears of an all-out conflagration in the Middle East.
Speaking at a weekly televised news conference, Baghaei said: “[Iran] will use all available tools to deliver a definite and effective response to the Zionist regime [Israel].”
The nature of Iran’s response depends on the nature of the Israeli attack, Baghaei added, without elaborating.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday that Iranian officials should determine how best to demonstrate Iran’s power to Israel, adding that the Isreli attack should “neither be downplayed nor exaggerated.”
Scores of Israeli jets completed three waves of strikes before dawn on Saturday against missile factories and other sites near Tehran and in western Iran, Israel’s military said.
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SOURCE: www.newsmax.com
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Illustrative image: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei listens to a speaker in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, October 2, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
Published October 28, 2024
In his first public comments since Israel’s airstrikes on military targets in the early hours of yesterday morning, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says Tehran officials should determine how best to respond.
According to the state IRNA news outlet, Khamenei says Israel has “made an error of calculation” and the strikes “should neither be downplayed nor exaggerated.”
Israel “should understand the strength, will and initiative of the Iranian nation,” Khamenei says in the statement.
Israel’s widespread airstrikes in Iran yesterday crippled Tehran’s ability to produce long-range ballistic missiles in a blow that will be hard and time-consuming to recover from, and rendered crucial energy facilities vulnerable to future attacks by destroying air defense batteries protecting them, according to multiple reports citing Israeli, American and Iranian officials, as well as satellite images analyzed by experts.
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SOURCE: www.timesofisrael.com
