Iranian attack shattered Israel’s taboo of regional invincibility: Deputy FM
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Monday that Iran’s missile attack against Isreal in June has broken a taboo of the regime’s invincibility which has existed in the region since 1960s wars.
Referring to the Six-Day War, or the 1967 Arab-Israeli war between Israel and a coalition of Arab states, Gharibabadi said no country managed to strike such a blow to the regime during the wars of the 1960s.
Addressing a ceremony marking National Student Day in the Iranian northern city of Qazvin, the official said that Iranian missiles hit their targets and inflicted heavy damage on Israel’s structures, IRNA reported.
On June 13, Israel launched an unprovoked war against Iran, assassinating many high-ranking military commanders, nuclear scientists, and ordinary civilians.
More than a week later, the United States also entered the war by bombing three Iranian nuclear sites in a grave violation of the United Nations Charter, international law, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
In response, the Iranian Armed Forces targeted strategic sites across the occupied territories as well as the Al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military base in West Asia.
“The Zionist regime means Western countries, it means the United States, it means every weapon that the United States has and every defensive equipment that some European countries possess is at the disposal of this regime,” Gharibabadi said.
Despite some Western countries’ military support for the Israeli regime during the 12-day war in June, “Israel did not achieve its strategic objectives and suffered a major defeat,” the Iranian diplomat stressed.
Satellite images along with information from various sources “from inside the occupied territory of the Zionist regime,” all indicated that the scale of the damage was “very, very extensive,” the Iranian official said.