Iran has completed its largest-ever missile barrage against Israel, but has warned that a retaliatory attack could necessitate further ballistic response.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said at this week's Asian Cooperation Dialogue summit that Israel should not believe it can act “with impunity,” according to Reuters.
“Our military will respond decisively in the event of any kind of military attack, terrorist act, or any red line that should not be crossed,” Pezeshkian said.
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian walks by the 79th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations Headquarters in New York. (Reuters/Caitlin Ochs)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the heads of the country's security services on Wednesday after Iran fired 181 missiles at Israel amid concerns that a deadly regional war was on the horizon. .
According to Reuters, Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani also attended the summit in Doha and called the ongoing violence in the Middle East a “genocide” that Israel is perpetuating.
“It has become abundantly clear that what is happening now is not only turning the Gaza Strip into an area unfit for human habitation in preparation for evacuation, but also genocide,” the Qatari monarch said.
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Numerous rockets fired from Iran can be seen over Jerusalem from Hebron in the West Bank. The Israeli military announced that missiles were fired from Iran toward Israel and sirens were heard across the country, especially in Tel Aviv. (Wissam Hashramoon/Anadolu via Getty Images)
On Tuesday, Iran's attack on Israel forced around 10 million people to seek safety in air raid shelters.
It was the first time in Israel's history that Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the densely populated cities in the heart of the Biblical nation, faced such a devastating attack.
The only fatality caused by Iranian barrage was the killing of a Palestinian man in the West Bank (known in Israel by the Biblical name of Judea and Samaria).
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Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts a rocket as seen from Ashkelon. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
President Biden said: Amid concerns that a deadly regional war is on the horizon, he said Wednesday that he would not support an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in retaliation for Iran's firing of 181 missiles at Israel. .
“We're going to talk to the Israelis about what they're going to do, but all seven of us… [G7 nations] I agree that they have a right to respond, but they need to respond proportionately,” he said.
But when asked if he would support an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, which Israel has long threatened to do, Biden told reporters: “The answer is no.”
Fox News Digital's Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this report.
