JERUSALEM — Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday disregarded any dialogue of whether or not Tehran’s remarkable drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything else there, a tacit acknowledgment that regardless of launching a big attack, few projectiles in fact made it thru to their goals.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s feedback prior to senior army leaders didn’t contact on the apparent Israeli retaliatory strike on Friday on the central town of Isfahan, despite the fact that air defenses opened fireplace and Iran grounded business flights throughout a lot of the rustic.
Analysts imagine each Iran and Israel, regional archrivals locked in a shadow warfare for years, are seeking to dial again tensions following a sequence of escalatory assaults between them as the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip rages on and inflames the broader area.
Khamenei, 85, made the feedback in a gathering attended by way of the highest ranks of Iran’s common army, police and paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, a formidable pressure inside of its Shiite theocracy.
“Debates by the other party about how many missiles were fired, how many of them hit the target and how many didn’t, these are of secondary importance,” Khamenei stated in remarks aired by way of state tv.
“The main issue is the emergence of the Iranian nation and Iranian military’s will in an important international arena. This is what matters.”
Iran introduced masses of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles that sought to weigh down Israel’s air defenses in the April 13 attack — the primary on Israel by way of a overseas energy since Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein launched Scud missiles at Israel in the 1991 Gulf War.
However, Israeli air defenses and fighter jets, subsidized by way of the U.S., the United Kingdom and neighboring Jordan, shot down the vast majority of the incoming fireplace.
Satellite photographs analyzed Saturday by way of The Associated Press confirmed the Iranian attack caused only minor damage on the Nevatim air base in southern Israel, together with taking a piece out of a taxiway that Israel briefly repaired.
Iran’s attack got here in reaction to a suspected Israeli strike on April 1 concentrated on a consular construction subsequent to the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria, which killed two Guard generals and others.
“Today, thanks to the work done by our armed forces, the Revolutionary Guard, the army, the police, each in its own way, praise be to Allah the image of the country around the world has become commendable,” added Khamenei, regardless of Iran going through public anger over its economic system and crackdowns on dissent.