Iran launches hundreds of drones and missiles in first-ever direct military assault on Israel

Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles toward Israel on Sunday in its first-ever direct military attack on the country, reported AP.

The attack is believed to be a response to a suspected Israeli airstrike on the Iranian Embassy in Syria earlier this month that killed 16 people, including seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

United States President Joe Biden said that his country’s support for Israel is “ironclad” and claimed that US forces had intervened to intercept “nearly all” the drones and missiles fired by Iran.

“I told [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] that Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks,” said Biden, reported BBC. United Kingdom Defence Minister Grant Shapps confirmed the deployment of Royal Air Force planes in the region

The attack, which pushes West Asia closer to a regional war, was confirmed by the Israeli military and by Iran’s state-run media, which claimed the launch of “dozens of drones and missiles towards the occupied territories and positions of the Zionist regime”, according to AP.

The majority of incoming threats were intercepted outside of Israel’s borders and airspace, claimed Israel Defense Forces spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari. He described Iran’s military action as “widespread” and called it a “major escalation” of tensions between...

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