Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations assured this Sunday that Tehran has no links to drone attack executed the day before against the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu“strongly” rejecting the Jewish state’s accusations.
“We have already responded to the Israeli regime,” the mission said in response to a question collected by the IRNA news agency on Israel’s statements naming the Islamic Republic as the author of the attack.
The mission assured that it was the Hezbollah militia party who was behind Saturday’s drone attack on Netanyahu’s home in Caesarea, in the center of the country, which caused no casualties.
“This action was led by Lebanese Hezbollah“, the mission said, although the Shiite group has not yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmail Baghaei, also spoke out on the subject, accusing the Jewish state of spreading “lies”, “the current and constant practice of this regime and its criminal leaders” .
The statements come after Israeli authorities blamed “agents of Iran” for the failed attack, in what they see as retaliation for the death this week of Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwarin the hands of the Israeli army.
For his part, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Jewish state, Israel Katz, has already rejected Iran’s statements, accusing Hezbollah of the attack: “The main proxy, the tentacle that Iran created, financed, armed, trained and now controls in all its operations, suddenly presents itself as an independent entity. Your lies and false pretenses will not help you: you are responsible,” he said on his social media account X.
Netanyahu speaks
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of the drone attack launched last Saturday against his private residence in Caesarea, in the center of the country, which caused no injuries. “The Iranian agents who attempted to assassinate me and my wife today made a grave mistake,” he warned after the attack.
