‘Precise, powerful’ hits on Iran’s missile production

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‘Precise, powerful’ hits on Iran’s missile production

*******’s airstrikes “hit hard” Iran’s defences and missile production, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says as Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei revealed the country was considering its response.

With warfare raging in Gaza and Lebanon, direct confrontation between ******* and Iran risks spiralling into a regional conflagration. But a day after the airstrikes, there was no sign they would spark another round of escalation.

However, heavy fighting in Lebanon between ******** forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah, which sharply intensified over recent weeks, continued on Sunday with an ******** airstrike ******** eight people in a residential block in Sidon, medics said.

“The air force attacked throughout Iran. We hit hard Iran’s defence capabilities and its ability to produce missiles that are aimed at us,” Netanyahu said in a speech, calling the ******* “precise and powerful” and saying it met all its objectives.

*******’s army chief, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, said the strike on Iran had showed what the ******** response to its enemies would be. “We struck strategic systems in Iran, which carries great importance, and we will now see how things develop. We are prepared for all scenarios in every arena.”

The Islamic Republic has not signalled how it will respond to Saturday’s long-anticipated strikes, which involved scores of fighter jets ******** targets near the capital Tehran and in the western provinces of Ilam and Khuzestan.

The U.N. Security Council will likely convene to discuss the ******* on Monday, diplomats said.

The heavily armed arch-enemies have engaged in a cycle of retaliatory moves against each other for months, with Saturday’s strike coming after an Iranian missile barrage on October 1, much of which ******* said was downed by its air defences.

Khamenei said *******’s calculations “should be disrupted”.

The ******* on Iran, which ******* four soldiers and caused some damage, “should neither be downplayed nor exaggerated”, he said.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran was not looking for war but would give an “appropriate response”.

US President Joe Biden called for a halt to escalation, which has raised fears of a wider Middle East war arising from the year-old ********-****** conflict in Gaza and *******’s thrust into south Lebanon to stop Hezbollah rocketing northern *******.

Separately, ******** Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Iran was no longer able to use its allies ****** in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon against *******. The two groups “are no longer an effective tool” of Tehran, he said in a speech.

Gallant added that ****** was no longer functioning as a military network in Gaza and that Hezbollah’s senior command and most of its missile capabilities had been eliminated.

****** has repeatedly said it is still able to function militarily, and ******* has recently conducted major new operations in devastated north Gaza against what it calls regrouping ****** militants.

Hezbollah has said its command structure ******** intact and that it retains significant missile capabilities.

On Sunday, the ******** military urged residents of 14 villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate immediately and move north of the Awali river.

An ******** strike on Sidon, a city in coastal south Lebanon, ******* at nine people and wounded 25 on Sunday, the country’s health ministry said.

Elsewhere in the south, a strike on Zawtar al-Sharkiya ******* three people and a Saturday ******** of Marjayoun ******* five, it said.

In all, ******** strikes ******* 19 people in Lebanon on Saturday, the health ministry said. At least 2,672 people have been ******* and 12,468 injured in the year since ******* and Hezbollah began exchanging rocket *****, it said late on Sunday.

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