The fundamental policy of the Islamic Republic has traditionally been to avoid direct confrontation with Israel, instead strategically maneuvering its proxy groups across the Middle East like pieces on a chessboard.
Israeli media cited foreign reports of an strike on Iran on Friday in the absence of official public comment, while Iranian officials and media played down the attack.
The Israeli army on Tuesday pulled out an 11-meter (36-foot) long remnant of one of the Iranian ballistic missiles that had crashed into the Dead Sea following the large-scale Sunday attack and showed it to reporters.
The finance ministers of the Group of Seven (G-7) condemned Iran’s “unprecedented attack” against Israeli territory, vowing close cooperation to impose new sanctions on Tehran.
Israeli artillery and fighter jet hit around 40 targets in southern Lebanon on Wednesday as intense fighting continued to escalate, with Hezbollah firing dozens of rockets at an Israeli border village.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei reiterated his support for Palestinian terror groups and militant proxies just days after the country's aerial bombardment aimed at Iran's archenemy Israel.
During a visit to Pakistan, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi issued a warning suggesting that any further Israeli attacks on Iranian soil could lead to the elimination of Israel.
Iranian news outlets have been actively praising the recent visit of Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to the United Nations headquarters in New York as a successful diplomatic effort.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian refrained from acknowledging that Israel had a part in the Friday attack on a airbase in Iran as Tehran attempts to quell war talk.
An air defense facility in southern Syria was targeted early Friday with a missile purportedly fired from Israel, causing material damage.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi avoided addressing Israel’s attack on the country on Friday, opting instead to praise Tehran’s own attack on Israel last week.
Following Israel’s airstrike on Iran, Iranian Parliamentarian Mahmoud Abbaszadeh Meshkini is warning the country for having made “a very dangerous and strategic mistake by playing with the lion's tail".
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) summoned the Swiss ambassador during the attack on Israel, a New York Times report on Wednesday confirmed.
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