New Delhi: Commenting on Saturday’s Israel airstrikes on Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, 27 October 2024, that Israel’s air attack on Iran was “precise and powerful” and achieved all its objectives.
“We promised we would respond to the Iranian attack and on Saturday we struck. The attack in Iran was precise and powerful, achieving all of its objectives,” Netanyahu said in a speech.
According to the Israeli media reports, the airstrikes inflicted heavy damages to the Iranian capability to produce long-range ballistic missiles adding that it will take a long time before recovers from the huge losses.
The reports also said that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) also destroyed Iranian air defence systems and killed several Iranian soldiers.
The Associated Press in a report claimed that the Israeli attack on Iran damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital Tehran that experts in the past have linked to Iran’s one time nuclear weapons program and at another base tied to its ballistic missile program.
The AP report, citing satellite photos analysed by it, says the Israeli attack damaged some buildings in Iran’s Parchin military base, where the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) suspects Iran in the past conducted tests of high explosives that could trigger a nuclear weapon.
Israel on Saturday, October 26, launched a big aerial attack on Iran in retaliation to Iran’s massive missile salvo on October 1. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Saturday that it has conducted “precise strikes” against Iranian military targets adding that the strikes were in a response to “relentless attacks” from Iran and its proxies.
The attacks were reported to have started early morning between 4-5 AM IST.
Israel also launched simultaneous strikes on Iraq and Syria, say reports.
Meanwhile, Iran has said that it will continue defending against Israeli attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, and Iranian officials. Interestingly, this is the first time that Israel has openly claimed an attack on Iran.
Iran, in its report said the Israeli airstrikes caused only limited damage with the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saying that Iranian officials should determine how best to demonstrate Iran’s power to Israel.
(With agencies’ inputs)
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