The israel Defence Forces has confirmed in a tweet that it struck alleged Iranian Quds Force “operatives” in Syria to foil what it described as a “pending, large-scale attack of multiple killer drones on Israel”.
Israeli ministers said on Sunday morning that Tel Aviv claimed responsibility for an overnight air raid in Syria alleging that it had prevented an Iranian drone strike on israel and to send a message to Tehran that it should not feel “safe anywhere”.
“We are taking responsibility for the attack in Syria and are saying that Iran should feel it is not safe anywhere. Iran is working day and night all over the Middle East in order to build an empire that has set for itself the goal of destroying Israel”, Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Ze'ev Elkin told Channel 13 TV news.
Likewise, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz told Kan public radio that Israel publicly acknowledged the airstrike to demonstrate that Iran “has no immunity anywhere”: “The [Syria] action was intended to cut the head off the snake”.
Meanwhile, the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) has cited a senior revolutionary guards commander as denying that Iranian targets were hit in the Israeli raid.
“This is a lie and not true. […] Israel and the United States do not have the power to attack Iran's various centres, and our (military) advisory centres have not been harmed”, Revolutionary Guards Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei said, per ILNA.
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