Iran has completed its largest missile barrage ever fired at Israel, but warns a retaliatory strike could warrant a new ballistic response.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said at the Asian Cooperation Dialogue summit this week that Israel should not believe it can act with “impunity,” according to Reuters.
“Any type of military attack, terrorist act or crossing of our red lines will result in a decisive response from our armed forces,” Pezeshkian said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the country's security chiefs on Wednesday after Iran fired 181 missiles into Israel, amid fears a deadly regional war was imminent.
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani was also present at the Doha summit, where he called the ongoing violence in the Middle East a “collective genocide” perpetuated by Israel, according to Reuters.
“It has become clear that what is happening is genocide, in addition to transforming the Gaza Strip into an area unfit for human habitation, in preparation for displacement,” the Qatari monarch said.
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Iranian strikes against Israel forced nearly 10 million people to take refuge in air raid shelters on Tuesday.
This barrage of aerial warfare was the first time in Israel's history that the country's densely populated cities – Tel Aviv and Jerusalem – at the center of the biblical nation, had faced such devastating attacks.
The only casualty of the Iranian barrage was the killing of a Palestinian in the West Bank (known in Israel by its biblical regional name of Judea and Samaria).
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President Biden said On Wednesday, he would not support an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites in retaliation for Iran's firing of 181 missiles into Israel, amid fears that a deadly regional war was imminent.
“We will discuss with the Israelis what they are going to do, but the seven of us [G7 nations] agree that they have the right to respond, but they must respond proportionately,” he said.
But when asked whether he would support Israel in strikes on Iran's nuclear sites as it has long threatened, Biden told reporters: “The answer is no.”
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Benjamin Weinthal of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.