Iranian ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani hailed, on Sunday, his country’s drone and missile strikes against Israel as a successful act to “punish” the Hebrew state for attacking Tehran’s consulate in Damascus on April 1.
“Iran has proved that it has succeeded in its move to punish Israel and is determined to defend itself,” Amani said on his X account.
The Iranian diplomat also served a straight warning to Israel and its allies: “The biggest mistake of this criminal entity and its allies would be to try to respond to (Saturday night’s) operation, in which case Iran’s punitive policy will change.”
He also blasted “American support for the Zionist entity,” which he said “did not prevent Iranian missiles from reaching their main target at a distance of 1,100 kilometers.”
At least 13 people, including two generals of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, were killed in the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
For his part, the pro-Hezbollah Grand Jaafari Mufti, Sheikh Ahmad Kabalan, claimed in a statement on Sunday that the Iranian strikes exposed Israel’s fragility, as well as the failure of its allies to defend it.
He said that through this act, “Tehran and Tehran only” safeguarded the dignity of the peoples and entities of the Middle East, including Palestine.
Later during the day, Hezbollah in turn hailed a “qualitative and unprecedented feat”. In a statement, he considered that “the attack achieved its military objectives with precision, despite the intervention of the United States, its Western allies and their regional instruments”.
“In the long term, the political and strategic objectives of this important development will gradually emerge”, said the pro-Iranian group, adding that the drone attack on Israel “will lay the foundations for a new victorious stage for the Palestinian cause and the Arab nation in conflict” with Israël.
