Iran rejected any involvement in Saturday’s failed attack on the Israeli prime minister’s private residence, Benjamin Netanyahu in Caesarea, central Israel, and accused its authorities of “spreading lies”.
“The Israeli regime was founded on lies and distortions of facts, and the propagation of lies continues to be a constant practice of this regime and its criminal leaders,” denounced the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry , Ismail Baghaei, in statements to IRNA. agency Saturday evening.
With these statements, Baghaei denied his country’s involvement in the launch of a drone that struck Caesarea yesterday and targeted Netanyahu’s private residence in that city, but Neither he nor any member of his family was present in the house.
The Israeli Prime Minister attributed the attack to the Islamic Republic and asserted that “the agents of Iran who today “They tried to murder me and my wife, they made a big mistake.”
Faced with these accusations, Iran’s permanent mission to the UN also denied that the country was behind the failed attack.
“We have already responded to the Israeli regime and The action in question was carried out by Hezbollah in Lebanon“, also indicated the Iranian mission to the IRNA agency.
However, Hezbollah has not yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
Iran, Israel’s archenemy, leads anti-Israel allianceAxis of Resistancecomposed, in addition to Hezbollah, of the Palestinian group Hamas, the Houthis of Yemen and the Iraqi militias.
Tehran launched 180 missiles against Israeli territory on October 1 in retaliation for the assassinations of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah and a general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Beirut on September 27, and for the death of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran. at the end of July.
Israel has declared that it will respond, to which the Iranian political and military authorities claim to respond with more force.
