Iran’s Ayatollah orders retaliatory attack against Israel after IDF strike deemed too big to ignore:
Iran’s Supreme Leader has ‘instructed his forces to prepare a direct attack against Israel’ after deeming the Jewish nation’s strike last week too big to ignore
While Khamenei attempted to downplay to the public the extent of Israel’s attack on Tehran’s military facilities, privately, Khamenei greenlit plans for a counter-attack in a meeting with his Supreme National Security Council, Iranian officials told The New York Times
The Ayatollah allegedly made his decision on Monday after reviewing the damage report from his military officials, which detailed the strikes across Tehran’s missile production plants and defence systems
Khamenei told his generals,
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"the attack, which also killed four Iranian soldiers, could not go unanswered" and "that a lack of response would mean admitting defeat to Israel"
according to Iranian media, General Ali Fadavi, the Iran Revolutionary Guards Corps deputy commander said,
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"Iran’s response to the Zionist aggression is definite”
“We have never left an aggression unanswered in 40 years We are capable of destroying all that the Zionists possess with one operation”
*This article originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission
