
Iran Launches 100-Drone Assault Following Khamenei’s Warning to Israel
Israel hit many targets in Israel, killing Iran’s senior revolutionary guards commander Gholam Ali Rashid and chief of staff for the armed forces Mohammad Bagheri, according to state television.
Iran has responded to Israel’s devastating airstrikes that struck several locations throughout the Islamic Republic on Friday, including military and nuclear installations. According to Israel’s military, Iran fired over 100 drones in Israel’s direction and was attempting to shoot them down.
Brigadier General Effie Defrin, the military spokesperson, stated, “We are working to intercept approximately 100 UAVs that Iran launched towards Israeli territory.” He went on to say that 200 fighter jets from Israel hit roughly 100 targets throughout Iran in its attacks.
There are “no limits” to Iran’s military’s retaliation to Israel. The general staff of the armed forces declared in a statement that “there are no limits in responding to this crime now that the terrorist regime occupying Al-Quds (Jerusalem) has crossed all red lines.”
Khamenei’s Caution
A “strong response” to Israeli aggression was what Iran had promised. The strikes that killed two senior military commanders and top nuclear experts in Iran will have serious repercussions for the Jewish state, according to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“With this crime, the Zionist regime has set itself for a bitter and painful fate, and it will definitely receive it,” Khamenei stated in a statement.
Israel hit many targets in Israel, killing Iran’s senior revolutionary guards commander Gholam Ali Rashid and chief of staff for the armed forces Mohammad Bagheri, according to state television. Fereydoun Abbasi and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, two nuclear scientists, “were targeted and martyred,” according to the Tasnim news agency.
Khamenei declared that the Jewish nation will receive “severe punishment” for its activities against Tehran, adding that “Israel revealed its malicious nature more than ever by striking residential centres, opening its wicked and blood-stained hand to a crime in our beloved country.”
The “Legitimate Right” of Iran to React
In response to Israel’s devastating attacks, Tehran claimed it had a “legal and legitimate right” to strike back. “Responding to this aggression is Iran’s legal and legitimate right in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry stated in a statement.
The military forces of Iran “will not hesitate to defend the Iranian nation with all their might,” the statement continued.
Iran’s Army Promises Retaliation
Israel’s devastating airstrikes on Friday struck several locations throughout Iran, including nuclear installations, and Iran’s military vowed to respond “strongly.”
Israel “will pay a heavy price and should await a strong response from the Iranian armed forces,” stated Abolfazl Shekarchi, spokesman for the general staff of the armed forces, who stated that “the armed forces will certainly respond to this Zionist attack.”
After its leader, Hossein Salami, was killed, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards likewise promised to exact revenge. In a statement broadcast on state television, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated that the strikes “will not remain unanswered and (Israel) must await harsh and regrettable revenge.”
US Responsibly
Tehran declared that Israel’s attacks on the Islamic Republic will leave the US “responsible for the consequences.”
“The Zionist regime’s aggressive actions against Iran cannot have been carried out without the coordination and permission of the United States,” claimed the Foreign Ministry, adding that the US was “responsible for the dangerous impact and consequences of the Zionist regime’s adventurism” .
Iran Justifies Its Nuclear Technology Push
Iran claimed that Israel’s attacks highlighted the necessity of developing its missile and uranium enrichment capabilities.
The Iranian government issued a statement saying, “One should not speak to such a predatory regime except in the language of power,” “The world now better understands Iran’s insistence on the right to enrichment, nuclear technology, and missile power.”
Israel’s assault on Iran
As oil prices surged more than 12%, the attacks sent shockwaves across the oil-rich Gulf, raising fears of a wider conflagration.
A historic reconciliation agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, who had long supported opposite sides in the Middle Eastern crisis, was mediated by China in 2023.
In 2016, Riyadh broke off relations with Iran when Iranian demonstrators stormed Saudi diplomatic posts after prominent Shiite preacher Nimr al-Nimr was executed.
Israel Provides Justification for Attack
According to the Israeli military, its information indicated that Iran was getting close to the “point of no return” with regard to its nuclear program.
“In recent months, accumulated intelligence information has provided evidence that the Iranian regime is approaching the point of no return,” it stated in a statement.
“The convergence of the Iranian regime’s efforts to produce thousands of kilogrammes of enriched uranium, alongside decentralised and fortified enrichment compounds in underground facilities, enables the Iranian regime to enrich uranium to military-grade levels, enabling the regime to obtain a nuclear weapon within a short period of time,” it stated.