Iranian officials have downplayed Israel’s drone attack on Iranian territory, signaling there will be no response.
“What happened last night was not a strike,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told NBC News on Friday. “They were more like toys that our children play with—not drones.”
Iranian authorities said three small drones were downed in the Isfahan province and did not report any damage. Unnamed Western and Iranian officials speaking to The New York Times said an Iranian air defense system was damaged by an Israeli airstrike, but the claim has not been confirmed by Tehran.
Amirabdollahian would not acknowledge that Israel was behind the drone attack and said Iran would only hit Israel if there were another escalation. “As long as there is no new adventurism by Israel against our interests, then we are not going to have any new reactions,” he said.
On Sunday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iranian forces had “success in recent events,” another sign that Tehran is not planning an escalation. He was referring to Iran’s recent drone and missile attack on Israel, which came in response to the Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
“How many missiles were launched and how many of them hit their target is not the primary question, what really matters is that Iran demonstrated its power during that operation,” Khamenei said. “In the recent operation, the armed forces managed to minimize costs and maximize gains.”
The risk of escalation in the region still exists as Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade fire across the border, and Israel might continue to target Iranians in Syria. The same night Israel attacked Iran, Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes in Syria and did damage to air defense systems.
Israel has been bombing Syria with impunity for years and has a history of targeting Iranians in the country. But the bombing of an Iranian consulate was a huge escalation since it hit a diplomatic facility and killed seven members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including a senior Quds Force commander.
China says, “Make peace, or we’ll overthrow you ourselves.”
China is full of it just like you.
Put America first, not your bank account.
Toys R Us…!
Sure, Iran. Those were toys you couldn’t stop with your shit Russian made S-300 & S-400s
Im sure you wont be buying more of those anymore. Lol.
PUTZ.
I think PUTZ stand for who you really are, a dictator lover and Fake peace activist.
As kids: “My dad could beat up your dad.”
As an adult: “My managerial state could beat up your managerial state.”
Who cares which side has better equipment?! The US can nuke the world; so, there won’t be a big war. None of it, then, matters.
Yes, you b!tches humbled down now.
What happened to your dictator love?
Lol
I’m not on a team, you moron.
To give an example, Clemson v. Carolina: I’m focused on the local neighborhood team, not even the high school team, a neighborhood.
Or if you’ve seen Pinky and the Brain, I’m Pinky. I don’t care about global domination.
Or since you like Hitler as the ultimate bad guy: Hitler invades Switzerland, and I’m concerned about my Canton, only.
I don’t at all in the least care about your global domination. I want to cut war spending to $50b and replace the managerial state with UBI.
Did you just bypass the censor? A certain mod threatened to ban me for doing just that, albeit on a noncurse word.
Curse words don’t violate our guidelines. Even if he’d used the letter i instead of an exclamation mark, it wouldn’t have mattered, so I don’t think he was trying to avoid moderation. Unless he’s not especially smart, as some people seem to think.
Israel begged U.S. to save face after April 14, so they bought them couple of drones from Amazon.
“How many missiles were launched and how many of them hit their target is not the primary question, what really matters is that Iran demonstrated its power during that operation” LOL. It was a poor demonization for sure.
Sure. Iran launched over 300 ballistic and cruise missiles and drones and injured a young Bedouin girl. Israel launched one hypersonic air to ground missile and took out their defense system. Before the Israel response, Iranians said that if Israel dared to attack, the Iranian reply would be massive and immediate. Well?
Hebrew: “Lame.”
Let’s get nuclear war going! Psycho, alpha, disco, beta. Hypersonic nuclear buckdown, baby!
different MF’s have been making songs about war pigs for a good 50 years now.
but none of that has ever had any kind of influence on the number of bombs & bullets that the US has continued to produce ever since WW1.
what, did yalls think that it was LUCK that uncle sam managed to come out on top ?
every single “anti-war” song from the 50’s to the present has been paid for by the uncle sam inc.
edit) = i so appreciate my free government cheese that i would never speak out against my bettors.
“how dare you SPY”
mother f*ckers!
Give Peace A Chanch
hey yall stupid f*cks = i will pinch your heads in the name of PEACE.
“wait, what did he just say?”
I’m not sure,, go get your dad ….