Israel Pledges Retaliation for Iranian Missile Attack 

With Tehran threatening “vast destruction” in response to any reprisal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that his country’s fiercest adversary, Iran, will foot the bill for its missile attack on Israel on Tuesday. 

This has raised concerns about the possibility of a wider war.

Iran’s military forces declared that direct action by Israel’s backers against Tehran would result in a “strong attack” from Iran on their “bases and interests” in the region, while Washington voiced full support for its longstanding friend, Israel.

“Iran made a big mistake tonight – and it will pay for it,” Netanyahu said at the outset of a political-security meeting, according to a statement.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said the assault was in retaliation for Israeli killings of militant leaders and aggression in Lebanon against the Iran-backed armed movement Hezbollah and in Gaza.

Fears that Iran and the U.S. would be drawn into a regional war have risen with Israel’s intensifying assault on Lebanon in the past two weeks, including the start of a ground operation there on Monday, and its year-old conflict in the Gaza Strip.

Source: Reuters