Israel launches retaliatory air strikes on military targets in Iran
Two soldiers were killed and ‘minor damages were caused in some areas’, Tehran said.
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Israel on Saturday launched air strikes targeting military bases in Iran amid heightened tensions in West Asia, Reuters reported.
Two soldiers were killed in the strikes, Iran said.
The attack was in retaliation to Tehran launching at least 180 missiles into Israel on October 2, which raised fears of an all-out war in West Asia and disruption of the global energy markets.
The Israeli military struck the military sites in Iran around 2 am, Al Jazeera reported. Subsequently, Tel Aviv said it had “completed” the strikes and “achieved its objectives”.
In a statement on the strikes, the Iranian defence forces said that bases in the provinces of Ilam, Khuzestan and Tehran had been hit.
However, the attacks were “successfully countered”, Tehran added. “Though minor damages were caused in some areas, and the extent of the incident is currently under investigation,” it said.
Daniel Hagari, the spokesperson of the Israel Defense Forces, said in a video statement recorded ahead of the strikes that “Iran and its proxies in the region have been relentlessly attacking Israel since October…including direct attacks from Iranian soil”.
Israel had the “right and the duty” to respond, he added.
Tehran has vowed a “proportional reaction” to the Israeli strikes, Reuters quoted a semi-official Iranian news agency as having reported on Saturday.
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