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Israel vows response after Iran hits it with salvo of ballistic missiles
Israeli military says attacks serious, will have consequences
Israel vows response after Iran hits it with salvo of ballistic missiles
Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, October 1, 2024 Photo: Reuters/Amir Cohen
Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, October 1, 2024 Photo: Reuters/Amir Cohen
- Iran says attack is retaliation for deaths of militant leaders
- Washington promises severe consequences
- US fired about a dozen interceptors, it says
Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday in retaliation for Israel's campaign against Tehran's Hezbollah allies in Lebanon, drawing vows of a sharp response from both Israel and the United States.
Alarms sounded across Israel and explosions could be heard in Jerusalem and the Jordan River valley. Israelis piled into bomb shelters and reporters on state television lay flat on the ground during live broadcasts.
Israel said more than 180 missiles were launched into Israel from Iran and Israeli air defences were activated to intercept them. US Navy warships fired about a dozen interceptors against Iranian missiles headed toward Israel, the Pentagon said.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said the assault was in retaliation for recent Israeli killings of militant leaders and aggression in Lebanon and Gaza. Its forces used hypersonic Fattah missiles for the first time, and 90% of its missiles successfully hit their targets in Israel, the Revolutionary Guards said.
No injuries were reported in Israel, but one man was killed in the occupied West Bank, authorities there said.
Rockets fly in the sky, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Tel Aviv, Israel, October 1, 2024. Photo: Reuters/Ammar Awad
Israeli officials promised consequences for the onslaught. Israeli Major General Herzi Halevi said in a statement: "We will choose when to collect the price, and prove our precise and surprising attack capabilities, in accordance with the guidance of the political leadership."
Washington backed up its longtime ally. "We have made clear that there will be consequences, severe consequences, for this attack, and we will work with Israel to make that the case," spokesman Jake Sullivan said at a White House briefing.
Sullivan did not specify what those consequences might be, but he stopped short of urging restraint by Israel as the US did in April when Iran carried out a drone and missile attack on Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a few other ministers were meeting in a bunker near Jerusalem, where the security cabinet was due to convene shortly, two Israeli officials said.
Iran said if Israel retaliated Tehran's response would be "more crushing and ruinous". Tehran targeted three Israeli military bases in its attack, Iran's state news agency said.
People take shelter during an air raid siren, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in central Israel October 1, 2024. Photo: Reuters/Ronen Zvulun
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a social media post: "This is just part of our capability. Do not get into a confrontation with Iran."
A senior Iranian official told Reuters the order to launch missiles at Israel had been made by the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei remains in a secure location, the senior official added.
Oil prices shot up 5% on the news of the Iranian missile strikes, which raise the prospect of a wider war between the two arch enemies.
The previous round of Iranian missiles fired at Israel in April - the first ever - were shot down with the help of the US military and other allies. Israel responded at the time with airstrikes in Iran, but wider escalation was averted.
The Pentagon said the scope of Tuesday's airstrikes was about twice the size of April's assault.
ESCALATION IN LEBANON
Iran had vowed to retaliate following Israeli strikes that killed the top leadership of its ally Hezbollah in Lebanon, including the group's leader Hassan Nasrallah, a towering figure in Iran's network of fighters across the region.
Hamas, the Iran-backed militant group in Gaza, praised the Iranian missile strikes, saying they avenged Israeli assassinations of three militant leaders, including Nasrallah.
In Washington, US President Joe Biden said the United States was prepared to help Israel defend itself from Iranian missile attacks, and Sullivan said the president was tracking developments "minute by minute."
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned what he called "escalation after escalation", saying: "This must stop. We absolutely need a ceasefire."
Israel in a post on X criticised Guterres for not holding "Iran responsible for firing 181 ballistic missiles at 10 million Israeli civilians."
Israel said overnight that its troops had launched ground raids into Lebanon, though it described the forays as limited.
In Beirut, Israeli strikes killed the commander of the Imam Hussein division, Israel's military said, referring to a Hezbollah-linked group based in Syria.
Nearly 1,900 people have been killed and more than 9,000 wounded in Lebanon in nearly a year of cross-border fighting, most in the past two weeks, according to Lebanese government statistics on Tuesday.
But a ground campaign into Lebanon for the first time in 18 years pitting Israeli soldiers against Hezbollah, Iran's best-armed proxy force in the Middle East, would be a major regional escalation.
Alarms sounded across Israel and explosions could be heard in Jerusalem and the Jordan River valley. Israelis piled into bomb shelters and reporters on state television lay flat on the ground during live broadcasts.
Israel said more than 180 missiles were launched into Israel from Iran and Israeli air defences were activated to intercept them. US Navy warships fired about a dozen interceptors against Iranian missiles headed toward Israel, the Pentagon said.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said the assault was in retaliation for recent Israeli killings of militant leaders and aggression in Lebanon and Gaza. Its forces used hypersonic Fattah missiles for the first time, and 90% of its missiles successfully hit their targets in Israel, the Revolutionary Guards said.
No injuries were reported in Israel, but one man was killed in the occupied West Bank, authorities there said.
Rockets fly in the sky, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Tel Aviv, Israel, October 1, 2024. Photo: Reuters/Ammar Awad
Israeli officials promised consequences for the onslaught. Israeli Major General Herzi Halevi said in a statement: "We will choose when to collect the price, and prove our precise and surprising attack capabilities, in accordance with the guidance of the political leadership."
Washington backed up its longtime ally. "We have made clear that there will be consequences, severe consequences, for this attack, and we will work with Israel to make that the case," spokesman Jake Sullivan said at a White House briefing.
Sullivan did not specify what those consequences might be, but he stopped short of urging restraint by Israel as the US did in April when Iran carried out a drone and missile attack on Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a few other ministers were meeting in a bunker near Jerusalem, where the security cabinet was due to convene shortly, two Israeli officials said.
Iran said if Israel retaliated Tehran's response would be "more crushing and ruinous". Tehran targeted three Israeli military bases in its attack, Iran's state news agency said.
People take shelter during an air raid siren, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in central Israel October 1, 2024. Photo: Reuters/Ronen Zvulun
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a social media post: "This is just part of our capability. Do not get into a confrontation with Iran."
A senior Iranian official told Reuters the order to launch missiles at Israel had been made by the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei remains in a secure location, the senior official added.
Oil prices shot up 5% on the news of the Iranian missile strikes, which raise the prospect of a wider war between the two arch enemies.
The previous round of Iranian missiles fired at Israel in April - the first ever - were shot down with the help of the US military and other allies. Israel responded at the time with airstrikes in Iran, but wider escalation was averted.
The Pentagon said the scope of Tuesday's airstrikes was about twice the size of April's assault.
ESCALATION IN LEBANON
Iran had vowed to retaliate following Israeli strikes that killed the top leadership of its ally Hezbollah in Lebanon, including the group's leader Hassan Nasrallah, a towering figure in Iran's network of fighters across the region.
Hamas, the Iran-backed militant group in Gaza, praised the Iranian missile strikes, saying they avenged Israeli assassinations of three militant leaders, including Nasrallah.
In Washington, US President Joe Biden said the United States was prepared to help Israel defend itself from Iranian missile attacks, and Sullivan said the president was tracking developments "minute by minute."
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned what he called "escalation after escalation", saying: "This must stop. We absolutely need a ceasefire."
Israel in a post on X criticised Guterres for not holding "Iran responsible for firing 181 ballistic missiles at 10 million Israeli civilians."
Israel said overnight that its troops had launched ground raids into Lebanon, though it described the forays as limited.
In Beirut, Israeli strikes killed the commander of the Imam Hussein division, Israel's military said, referring to a Hezbollah-linked group based in Syria.
Nearly 1,900 people have been killed and more than 9,000 wounded in Lebanon in nearly a year of cross-border fighting, most in the past two weeks, according to Lebanese government statistics on Tuesday.
But a ground campaign into Lebanon for the first time in 18 years pitting Israeli soldiers against Hezbollah, Iran's best-armed proxy force in the Middle East, would be a major regional escalation.
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Iran fires 180 missiles at Israel
Iran launched around 180 missiles at Israel last night in response to the killings of Tehran-backed militant leaders, prompting alarm across the region and vows of retaliation.
Iran fires 180 missiles at Israel
IDF says the attack will have consequences
Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets fired by Iran, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, yesterday. Photo: Reuters
Iran launched around 180 missiles at Israel last night in response to the killings of Tehran-backed militant leaders, prompting alarm across the region and vows of retaliation.
Most of the missiles were intercepted by Israeli air defences or by allied air forces before they reached Israel.
"Missiles were launched from Iran towards the State of Israel," the Israeli military said in a statement, as sirens sounded nationwide, announcing after about an hour that the attack was over with a "large number" of missiles intercepted.
Israeli medics reported two people were lightly injured by shrapnel in the country's centre, while in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian was killed in Jericho "when pieces of a rocket fell from the sky and hit him", the city's governor Hussein Hamayel told AFP.
It was Iran's second direct attack on Israel after a missile and drone attack in April in response to a deadly Israeli air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had launched a missile attack on "three military bases" around Israel's commercial hub Tel Aviv.
They said the attack was in response to Israel's killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week as well as the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a Tehran bombing widely blamed on Israel.
UN chief Antonio Guterres condemned the "broadening conflict in the Middle East", saying in a statement: "This must stop. We absolutely need a ceasefire."
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Iranian attack was "unacceptable" and called on the whole world to condemn it.
Israeli airspace was closed for several hours with all flights diverted, a spokesman for the airport authority said.
Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan, which lie between Iran and Israel, closed their airspace too.
As the missiles made their way to Israel from the east, blasts were heard over the Jordanian capital Amman, as Israel's allies moved to intercept them, an AFP correspondent said.
Jordan said its air defences responded to missiles and drones.
US President Joe Biden ordered the military to "aid Israel's defence" and shoot down Iranian missiles, the White House said.
While Iran-backed groups across the region had already been drawn into the Gaza war, sparked by Palestinian group Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, Tehran had largely refrained from direct attacks on its regional foe.
- 'Direct conflict' -
Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said the latest Iranian "attack will have consequences. We have plans, and we will operate at the place and time we decide".
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said that "If the Zionist regime reacts to Iranian operations, it will face crushing attacks", according to a statement carried by the Fars news agency.
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier said he was concerned about "a direct conflict that seems to be underway between Iran and Israel".
Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on social media platform X that the attack was "leading the region further towards the abyss".
Iran-backed group Hamas praised the Iranian attack, saying it was "in revenge for the blood of our heroic martyrs".
And Tehran-aligned armed factions in Iraq threatened to target "all" US forces in the country if Iran comes under attack.
The escalation came after the Israeli military early Tuesday said troops had started "targeted ground raids" in south Lebanon, across Israel's northern border.
The Israeli ground offensive came despite growing calls for de-escalation after a week of air strikes that killed hundreds in Lebanon, including Hassan Nasrallah, the powerful leader of Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
Iran has said Nasrallah's killing will bring about Israel's "destruction", though the foreign ministry said Monday that Tehran would not deploy any troops to confront Israel.
The Pentagon said the United States was boosting its forces in the Middle East by a "few thousand" troops.
- 'Greater suffering' -
In Lebanon, the UN peacekeeping mission said the Israeli offensive did not amount to a "ground incursion" and Hezbollah denied any troops had crossed the border.
There was no way to immediately verify the claims, which came as Israel struck south Beirut, Damascus and Gaza, despite international calls for restraint to avoid a regional conflagration.
"We fear a large-scale ground invasion by Israel into Lebanon would only result in greater suffering," said UN human rights office spokeswoman Liz Throssell.
Israel's defence minister warned the fight was far from over, even after a massive strike on Beirut killed Nasrallah on Friday.
Israel seeks to dismantle Hezbollah's military capabilities and restore security to the north, where tens of thousands have been displaced by nearly a year of cross-border fire.
The Iran-backed group, which suffered heavy losses in a spate of attacks last month, said it targeted Israeli army bases on Tuesday.
Separately, a suspected shooting attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening killed at least four people, police said.
Lebanon's Health Minister Firass Abiad said more than 1,000 people have been killed since September 17.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and the UN humanitarian agency appealed for more than $400 million in aid for the displaced, estimating there could be as many as one million.
- Gaza strikes -
Hezbollah began low intensity strikes on Israeli troops a day after its Palestinian ally Hamas staged its unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, which triggered Israel's devastating assault on Gaza.
In central Beirut, Youssef Amir, displaced from southern Lebanon, said: "I have lost my home and relatives in this war, but all of that is a sacrifice for Lebanon, for Hezbollah".
Beirut resident Elie Jabour, 27, told AFP that despite opposing Hezbollah "politically... I support them defending the border".
Later, as Iran launched missiles, celebratory gunfire erupted from Hezbollah's bastion in Beirut's southern suburbs.
In Gaza, the civil defence agency said Israeli bombing killed 19 people on Tuesday.
Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures that include hostages killed in captivity.
Israel's retaliatory military offensive has killed at least 41,638 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures provided by the Hamas-run territory's health ministry. The UN has described the figures as reliable.
IDF says the attack will have consequences
Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets fired by Iran, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, yesterday. Photo: Reuters
Iran launched around 180 missiles at Israel last night in response to the killings of Tehran-backed militant leaders, prompting alarm across the region and vows of retaliation.
Most of the missiles were intercepted by Israeli air defences or by allied air forces before they reached Israel.
"Missiles were launched from Iran towards the State of Israel," the Israeli military said in a statement, as sirens sounded nationwide, announcing after about an hour that the attack was over with a "large number" of missiles intercepted.
Israeli medics reported two people were lightly injured by shrapnel in the country's centre, while in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian was killed in Jericho "when pieces of a rocket fell from the sky and hit him", the city's governor Hussein Hamayel told AFP.
It was Iran's second direct attack on Israel after a missile and drone attack in April in response to a deadly Israeli air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had launched a missile attack on "three military bases" around Israel's commercial hub Tel Aviv.
They said the attack was in response to Israel's killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week as well as the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a Tehran bombing widely blamed on Israel.
UN chief Antonio Guterres condemned the "broadening conflict in the Middle East", saying in a statement: "This must stop. We absolutely need a ceasefire."
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Iranian attack was "unacceptable" and called on the whole world to condemn it.
Israeli airspace was closed for several hours with all flights diverted, a spokesman for the airport authority said.
Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan, which lie between Iran and Israel, closed their airspace too.
As the missiles made their way to Israel from the east, blasts were heard over the Jordanian capital Amman, as Israel's allies moved to intercept them, an AFP correspondent said.
Jordan said its air defences responded to missiles and drones.
US President Joe Biden ordered the military to "aid Israel's defence" and shoot down Iranian missiles, the White House said.
While Iran-backed groups across the region had already been drawn into the Gaza war, sparked by Palestinian group Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, Tehran had largely refrained from direct attacks on its regional foe.
- 'Direct conflict' -
Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said the latest Iranian "attack will have consequences. We have plans, and we will operate at the place and time we decide".
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said that "If the Zionist regime reacts to Iranian operations, it will face crushing attacks", according to a statement carried by the Fars news agency.
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier said he was concerned about "a direct conflict that seems to be underway between Iran and Israel".
Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on social media platform X that the attack was "leading the region further towards the abyss".
Iran-backed group Hamas praised the Iranian attack, saying it was "in revenge for the blood of our heroic martyrs".
And Tehran-aligned armed factions in Iraq threatened to target "all" US forces in the country if Iran comes under attack.
The escalation came after the Israeli military early Tuesday said troops had started "targeted ground raids" in south Lebanon, across Israel's northern border.
The Israeli ground offensive came despite growing calls for de-escalation after a week of air strikes that killed hundreds in Lebanon, including Hassan Nasrallah, the powerful leader of Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
Iran has said Nasrallah's killing will bring about Israel's "destruction", though the foreign ministry said Monday that Tehran would not deploy any troops to confront Israel.
The Pentagon said the United States was boosting its forces in the Middle East by a "few thousand" troops.
- 'Greater suffering' -
In Lebanon, the UN peacekeeping mission said the Israeli offensive did not amount to a "ground incursion" and Hezbollah denied any troops had crossed the border.
There was no way to immediately verify the claims, which came as Israel struck south Beirut, Damascus and Gaza, despite international calls for restraint to avoid a regional conflagration.
"We fear a large-scale ground invasion by Israel into Lebanon would only result in greater suffering," said UN human rights office spokeswoman Liz Throssell.
Israel's defence minister warned the fight was far from over, even after a massive strike on Beirut killed Nasrallah on Friday.
Israel seeks to dismantle Hezbollah's military capabilities and restore security to the north, where tens of thousands have been displaced by nearly a year of cross-border fire.
The Iran-backed group, which suffered heavy losses in a spate of attacks last month, said it targeted Israeli army bases on Tuesday.
Separately, a suspected shooting attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening killed at least four people, police said.
Lebanon's Health Minister Firass Abiad said more than 1,000 people have been killed since September 17.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and the UN humanitarian agency appealed for more than $400 million in aid for the displaced, estimating there could be as many as one million.
- Gaza strikes -
Hezbollah began low intensity strikes on Israeli troops a day after its Palestinian ally Hamas staged its unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, which triggered Israel's devastating assault on Gaza.
In central Beirut, Youssef Amir, displaced from southern Lebanon, said: "I have lost my home and relatives in this war, but all of that is a sacrifice for Lebanon, for Hezbollah".
Beirut resident Elie Jabour, 27, told AFP that despite opposing Hezbollah "politically... I support them defending the border".
Later, as Iran launched missiles, celebratory gunfire erupted from Hezbollah's bastion in Beirut's southern suburbs.
In Gaza, the civil defence agency said Israeli bombing killed 19 people on Tuesday.
Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures that include hostages killed in captivity.
Israel's retaliatory military offensive has killed at least 41,638 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures provided by the Hamas-run territory's health ministry. The UN has described the figures as reliable.
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Iran threatens 'crushing attacks' if Israel responds
Palestinians investigate a projectile, after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, in Tubas, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 1, 2024. Photo: Reuters/Raneen Sawafta
Iran's Revolutionary Guards threatened to carry out "crushing attacks" against arch-foe Israel if it retaliates for a missile attack by the Islamic republic on Tuesday.
"If the Zionist regime reacts to Iranian operations, it will face crushing attacks," the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement carried by the Fars news agency.
The IRGC said the attack was "in accordance with the United Nations Charter".
It said the missile attack came "after a period of restraint" following an "attack on the sovereignty" of Iran -- a reference to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in late July.
The IRGC said the missile attacks targeted "three military bases" around Tel Aviv as well as air and radar bases, adding that "90 percent" of the missiles "hit their targets".
The United States had earlier warned of an imminent Iranian ballistic missile attack on Israel, and said it would have "severe" consequences for Tehran.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian hailed the country's "decisive response" to what he called the Israeli "aggression".
Iranian media carried online footage of what they said were missiles being fired at Israel.
State television played upbeat music over the footage as its newscaster spoke of "the brave Iranian people".
It broadcast images of residents of Iran's second city Mashhad celebrating the missile attack in the streets, waving the yellow flag of Hezbollah and portraits of the Lebanese group's slain chief Hassan Nasrallah.
Gaza ceasefire efforts
Similar celebrations also took place in the capital Tehran and in several provincial cities.
Tuesday's attack was Iran's second on Israel, after a missile and drone attack in April in retaliation for a deadly Israeli air strike on Iran's consulate in Damascus.
Nearly all of the missiles and drones fired in that attack were intercepted by Israel or its allies.
An Israeli air strike on Beirut on Friday killed Nasrallah, whose militant group has been armed and financed by Iran for years.
Nasrallah was killed alongside General Abbas Nilforoushan, a top commander of the Quds Force, the IRGC's foreign operations arm.
Iran vowed that Nilforoushan's killing would "not go unanswered".
At last month's UN General Assembly in New York, Pezeshkian accused Israel of warmongering as Iran exercised restraint.
He suggested Tehran had held back retaliation for Haniyeh's killing, fearing that it could derail US-backed efforts for a ceasefire in the Gaza war.
"We tried to not respond. They kept telling us we were within reach of peace, perhaps in a week or so," he said.
On Sunday, Pezeshkian said promises by the United States and its allies of a "ceasefire in exchange for Iran's non-reaction to Haniyeh's killing were completely false".
He added that "giving these criminals (Israel) a chance would only encourage them to commit more crimes".
Iran does not recognise Israel, and has made support for the Palestinian cause a centrepiece of its foreign policy since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Tehran hailed its ally Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, which triggered the Gaza war, but denied any involvement.
Regional tensions have soared since the outbreak of the Gaza war, drawing in Iran-aligned groups from Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
Palestinians investigate a projectile, after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, in Tubas, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 1, 2024. Photo: Reuters/Raneen Sawafta
Iran's Revolutionary Guards threatened to carry out "crushing attacks" against arch-foe Israel if it retaliates for a missile attack by the Islamic republic on Tuesday.
"If the Zionist regime reacts to Iranian operations, it will face crushing attacks," the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement carried by the Fars news agency.
The IRGC said the attack was "in accordance with the United Nations Charter".
It said the missile attack came "after a period of restraint" following an "attack on the sovereignty" of Iran -- a reference to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in late July.
The IRGC said the missile attacks targeted "three military bases" around Tel Aviv as well as air and radar bases, adding that "90 percent" of the missiles "hit their targets".
The United States had earlier warned of an imminent Iranian ballistic missile attack on Israel, and said it would have "severe" consequences for Tehran.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian hailed the country's "decisive response" to what he called the Israeli "aggression".
Iranian media carried online footage of what they said were missiles being fired at Israel.
State television played upbeat music over the footage as its newscaster spoke of "the brave Iranian people".
It broadcast images of residents of Iran's second city Mashhad celebrating the missile attack in the streets, waving the yellow flag of Hezbollah and portraits of the Lebanese group's slain chief Hassan Nasrallah.
Gaza ceasefire efforts
Similar celebrations also took place in the capital Tehran and in several provincial cities.
Tuesday's attack was Iran's second on Israel, after a missile and drone attack in April in retaliation for a deadly Israeli air strike on Iran's consulate in Damascus.
Nearly all of the missiles and drones fired in that attack were intercepted by Israel or its allies.
An Israeli air strike on Beirut on Friday killed Nasrallah, whose militant group has been armed and financed by Iran for years.
Nasrallah was killed alongside General Abbas Nilforoushan, a top commander of the Quds Force, the IRGC's foreign operations arm.
Iran vowed that Nilforoushan's killing would "not go unanswered".
At last month's UN General Assembly in New York, Pezeshkian accused Israel of warmongering as Iran exercised restraint.
He suggested Tehran had held back retaliation for Haniyeh's killing, fearing that it could derail US-backed efforts for a ceasefire in the Gaza war.
"We tried to not respond. They kept telling us we were within reach of peace, perhaps in a week or so," he said.
On Sunday, Pezeshkian said promises by the United States and its allies of a "ceasefire in exchange for Iran's non-reaction to Haniyeh's killing were completely false".
He added that "giving these criminals (Israel) a chance would only encourage them to commit more crimes".
Iran does not recognise Israel, and has made support for the Palestinian cause a centrepiece of its foreign policy since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Tehran hailed its ally Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, which triggered the Gaza war, but denied any involvement.
Regional tensions have soared since the outbreak of the Gaza war, drawing in Iran-aligned groups from Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
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Iran launched twice as many missiles as in last attack on Israel: Pentagon
Iran launched about twice as many ballistic missiles Tuesday as it did in its previous direct attack on Israel earlier this year, the Pentagon said
Iran launched twice as many missiles as in last attack on Israel: Pentagon
Palestinians investigate a projectile, after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, in Tubas, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 1, 2024. Photo: Reuters/Raneen Sawafta
Iran launched about twice as many ballistic missiles Tuesday as it did in its previous direct attack on Israel earlier this year, the Pentagon said.
The attack was "about twice as large in terms of the number of ballistic missiles that they launched," Pentagon spokesman Major General Pat Ryder told journalists.
"Initial reports indicate that Israel was able to intercept the majority of incoming missiles and that there was minimal damage on the ground," Ryder said, noting that two American destroyers fired about a dozen interceptors as part of the defensive effort.
Iran said its latest attack on Israel was in response to the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in late July.
It followed another wave of drones and missiles launched by Iran in April in the wake of an air strike blamed on Israel that hit Tehran's diplomatic mission in Damascus.
Palestinians investigate a projectile, after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, in Tubas, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 1, 2024. Photo: Reuters/Raneen Sawafta
Iran launched about twice as many ballistic missiles Tuesday as it did in its previous direct attack on Israel earlier this year, the Pentagon said.
The attack was "about twice as large in terms of the number of ballistic missiles that they launched," Pentagon spokesman Major General Pat Ryder told journalists.
"Initial reports indicate that Israel was able to intercept the majority of incoming missiles and that there was minimal damage on the ground," Ryder said, noting that two American destroyers fired about a dozen interceptors as part of the defensive effort.
Iran said its latest attack on Israel was in response to the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in late July.
It followed another wave of drones and missiles launched by Iran in April in the wake of an air strike blamed on Israel that hit Tehran's diplomatic mission in Damascus.
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Iran's totally trashed trillion dollar western ABM systems and defenses. The vids online are very bad and have totally destroyed Israeli and the western military industry's reputation.
@Vsdoc .......bhai in Iranio ko aap samjhao to let Israel live as a nobody. In key 'gaand maarna' aur vo bhee sub k saamnay? is very bad behavior of Iran. Iss tarha sub k saamnay putloon utaar dena is unacceptable behavior of Iran.
Can the Parsi's talk to the IRGC and the Zionists to put the Zionists under Irani control and end this jahil drama?
Doc, the Al-Yahuday got no where to go. 60% Ijh-raheeli are coluddz......They'd be treated like bhungi in the EU and the arabs won't take em back after all the bad blood. Their only hope now is to suck up to Iran and come under Irani protection vurna the arabs will eat them alive. The hillbillay don't care and want to get rid of them.
I'm talking to my irani yahudi phraandzz and this is their suggestion. Just come under Irani protection, vurna bohot bura ho ga!
Persian Jews gotta go home bhai.
@Vsdoc .......bhai in Iranio ko aap samjhao to let Israel live as a nobody. In key 'gaand maarna' aur vo bhee sub k saamnay? is very bad behavior of Iran. Iss tarha sub k saamnay putloon utaar dena is unacceptable behavior of Iran.
Can the Parsi's talk to the IRGC and the Zionists to put the Zionists under Irani control and end this jahil drama?
Doc, the Al-Yahuday got no where to go. 60% Ijh-raheeli are coluddz......They'd be treated like bhungi in the EU and the arabs won't take em back after all the bad blood. Their only hope now is to suck up to Iran and come under Irani protection vurna the arabs will eat them alive. The hillbillay don't care and want to get rid of them.
I'm talking to my irani yahudi phraandzz and this is their suggestion. Just come under Irani protection, vurna bohot bura ho ga!
Persian Jews gotta go home bhai.
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For that there needs to be another Cyrus and Darius.
Let's see what the US does now.
400 is like a small percent of Iran's stockpile.
And the Iron Dome was completely exposed. Hope Indian phull sapport fanbois were/re watching.
Cheers, Doc
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Yaar I get the feeling that behind the scenes Netanyahu is talking to Khamenei and negotiating for his life. Iran's got em totally surrounded and put under siege and if Israel's gotta rely on the west for survival then that ain't a life worth living.
You do realize the other far more sinister development here that if a sanctioned Iran can absolutely demolish the best western ABM systems easily, then what do we say about all these India/ Pakistan/ China/ Russian defense industries? These guys are all hopeless bhai.
Irans not only trashed the western defense industry but its done far more reputational damage to Russia/ China/ India/ Pakistan......
Pakistan needs to immediately get Irans hypersonics and their newer weapons and drones ASAP. All we got is junk. Bewaquff Pakistani generals got no clue on what's going on here.
I'm telling you doc after this ass beating delivered to Israel, Iran's right behind the US in military ranking. Pretty darn obvious now.
oh bhai forget all this, hamara kya banay ga ab? All we got is junk military's. Scrap heap?
We got nothing like these iranis? hum kya karain ab?
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