He dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything there, a tacit acknowledgment that despite Iran launching a major assault, few projectiles actually made it through to their targets.
“Debates by the other party about how many missiles were fired, how many of them hit the target and how many didn’t, these are of secondary importance,” Khamenei said on Sunday during a meeting with brass from Iran’s various armed forces, according to state media. “The main issue is the emergence of the Iranian nation and Iranian military’s will in an important international arena. This is what matters.”
Tehran openly targeted Israel for the first time on April 13 with more than 300 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and armed drones in what it said was retaliation for Israel’s suspected deadly bombing of its embassy compound in Damascus on April 1.
The Israel Defense Forces said 99 percent of the incoming munitions were intercepted by air defense systems that operated in cooperation with the US, British, French and Jordanian forces across the region. A handful of missiles that made it through the defensive shield caused only minor damage on an airbase. A young girl from Israel’s Bedouin community was seriously injured by shrapnel from one intercepted missile. READ MORE
