Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran did not communicate with the United States before last night’s missile attack on Israel. However, Iran warns the United States not to interfere in retaliatory actions.
“There was no exchange of messages before the attack,” Araghchi said in an interview with state television, adding that Iran had communicated with the United States after the attack.
“We… warned American forces to distance themselves from this matter and not interfere,” Araghchi said, adding that the message was transmitted through the Swiss embassy in Tehran.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) previously boasted of launching a ballistic missile attack on Israel and threatened to deal “crushing blows” to the Jewish nation if it retaliated.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei tweeted an illustration of a large underground weapons depot with the message: “Victory comes from Allah and is near.”
The IRGC claims that 90 percent of the 180 ballistic missiles it fired at Israel hit their intended targets, which the terrorists said were three military bases in the Tel Aviv area.
The IDF, however, said it intercepted a “large number” of rockets and that there were only “isolated hits” in central and southern Israel, although it did not specify the exact locations of the attacks.
US national security adviser Jake Sullivan called the attack “defeating and ineffective” and vowed that the Islamic regime would be punished.
Cursor previously wrote that Bennett proposed a targeting option for a retaliatory strike against Iran.
