Don’t really buy the Israeli ‘retaliation’ story. It just seems like both Iran and Israel wanted to save face and be seen as doing something to ‘defend’ and ‘protect’ their people.
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Guardian Live Updates:
No plan for immediate retaliation against Israel, senior Iranian official says
Iran has no plan for immediate retaliation against
Israel, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Friday, hours after sources said
Israel launched an attack on Iranian soil.
“The foreign source of the incident has not been confirmed. We have not received any external attack, and the discussion leans more towards infiltration than attack,” the Iranian official said on condition of anonymity.
According to Reuters, an Iranian analyst also told state TV on Friday that mini drones shot down by air defences in Isfahan were flown by “infiltrators from inside Iran”.
Meanwhile, the Israeli hard right minister
Ben Gvirhas posted a one-word post on X on Friday: “Feeble!”