JERUSALEM/CAIRO: Israel’s air strikes “hit arduous” Iran’s defences and missile manufacturing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned on Sunday, however Iranian Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei mentioned the injury from Saturday’s attack shouldn’t be exaggerated.
With warfare raging in Gaza and Lebanon, direct confrontation between Israel and Iran dangers spiralling right into a regional conflagration. However a day after the air strikes, there was no signal they might spark one other spherical of escalation.
Nevertheless, heavy combating in Lebanon between Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah, which sharply intensified over current weeks, continued on Sunday with an Israeli airstrike killing eight folks in a residential block in Sidon, medics mentioned.
“The air pressure attacked all through Iran. We hit arduous Iran’s defence capabilities and its potential to provide missiles which can be geared toward us,” Netanyahu mentioned in a speech, calling the assault “exact and highly effective” and saying it met all its goals.
