“Collectively we thwarted Iran’s assault… This was the primary time that such a coalition labored collectively.”
Jerusalem:
Israel’s military stated Sunday Israel, the US, Britain, France and different allies had come collectively as a “coalition” for the primary time to counter Iran’s unprecedented assault.
Iran launched a wave of missiles and assault drones in opposition to Israel in a single day Saturday to Sunday within the first ever direct assault on its arch foe.
“Collectively we thwarted Iran’s assault… This was the primary time that such a coalition labored collectively in opposition to the specter of Iran and its proxies within the Center East,” stated navy spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari in a televised assertion.
“Iran launched over 350 threats, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, rockets and suicide drones in direction of Israel and likewise different nations within the area may have gotten that risk on the best way.”
Tehran’s assault got here in retaliation for a lethal air strike broadly blamed on Israel that destroyed its consular constructing in Syria’s capital early this month.
In a separate assertion, Israel’s Overseas Minister Israel Katz stated he had advised his British and French counterparts that “Iran should pay a value”.
“I advised them — it is your time to weaken the Iranian regime, to proscribe the IRGC (Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) as a terrorist organisation, and to impose crippling sanctions on the Iranian missile undertaking.”
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