Iran’s leaders insist the attack against Israel was a ‘victory’

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A top Iranian lawmaker says Sunday's attack 'humiliated the Israeli regime.' But Israel says 99% of Iran's missiles and drones were intercepted.

An anti-missile system operates after Iran launched drones and missiles toward Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, April 14. Raisi said the IRGC had “taught a lesson to the Zionist entity,” using Tehran’s preferred term for Israel.that a top Iranian lawmaker, Mojtaba Zonnouri, said the IRGC’s “punitive operation” was a “victory” and “was a cause of pride for the people as it humiliated the Israeli regime.

Iravani added that Iran’s missiles exclusively targeted “military objectives” and said Iran had “no intention of engaging in conflict with the U.S.”based on anonymous IRGC sources who claimed that “all hypersonic missiles in Iran’s strikes against Israel hit targets.” That claim could not immediately be confirmed.

Praise for the Iranian attack also spread beyond Iran itself. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian spoke by phone with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, and some Russian news sites quoted officials who were quick to applaud the attack too.One unprecedented aspect of the Iranian attack on Israel is that it was not farmed out to proxy militias such asin Lebanon, although those groups did carry out attacks they said were in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

 

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