Iran\u2019s top foreign affairs official dismissed weapons launched against the country by neighboring Israel as \u2018toys\u2019 and said there was no plan to retaliate.<\/p>\n
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian downplayed the Israeli strike during an interview on Friday, hours after the impact.<\/p>\n
\u2018What happened last night wasn\u2019t a strike,\u2019 Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told NBC News. \u2018They were more like toys that our children play with \u2014 not drones.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018As long as there is no new adventurism by Israel against our interests, then we are not going to have any new reactions,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n
Amir-Abdollahian also stated that the Iranian regime is not completely convinced the strike came from Israel, though he failed to offer alternative theories.<\/p>\n
\u2018If Israel takes a decisive action against my country and this is proven to us, our response will be immediate and to the maximum and will cause them to regret it,\u2019 the foreign minister said.<\/p>\n
Israel carried out limited strikes in Iran early Friday in retaliation for Tehran firing a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel last Saturday. A well-placed military source told Fox News that the strike was \u2018limited.\u2019<\/p>\n
There have been no reports of large-scale damage or casualties.<\/p>\n
Explosions were reported in the Isfahan province, which is where Natanz, one of Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities, is located.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following the attack, Iranian state media stated that the nation\u2019s atomic sites were \u2018fully safe\u2019 and had not been struck by the missiles.<\/p>\n
The International Atomic Energy Agency, a United Nations affiliate watchdog organization, later confirmed \u2018there is no damage to Iran\u2019s nuclear sites.\u2019<\/p>\n\n
Iran\u2019s top foreign affairs official dismissed weapons launched against the country by neighboring Israel as \u2018toys\u2019 and said there was no plan to retaliate. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian downplayed the Israeli strike during an interview on Friday, hours after the impact. \u2018What happened last night wasn\u2019t a strike,\u2019 Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told NBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}