Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, meets with the family of one of the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who were killed in the Israeli airstrike on the Iranian Embassy complex in the Syrian capital Damascus, during a funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran April 4, 2024. (Credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via Reuters)
DUBAI — Iran's supreme leader, Ali
Khamenei, thanked the country's armed forces for their operation
against Israel, and urged them to "ceaselessly pursue military
innovation and learn the enemy's tactics," Iran's official news
agency reported on Sunday.
Tehran openly targeted Israel for the first time on April 13 with more than 300 missiles and drones in what it said was retaliation for Israel's suspected deadly bombing of its embassy compound in Damascus on April 1.
"How many missiles were launched and how many of them hit their target is not the primary question, what really matters is that Iran demonstrated its will-power during that operation," Khamenei said on Sunday.
Early on Friday, explosions echoed over the Iranian city of Isfahan in what sources said was an Israeli attack, but Tehran played down the incident and said it had no plans for retaliation — a response that appeared gauged towards averting region-wide war.
Khamenei, thanked the country's armed forces for their operation
against Israel, and urged them to "ceaselessly pursue military
innovation and learn the enemy's tactics," Iran's official news
agency reported on Sunday.
Tehran openly targeted Israel for the first time on April 13
with more than 300 missiles and drones in what...