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Israel-Iran live updates: Israeli missile has struck Iran, US officials say - BBC News Israel-Iran live updates: Israeli missile has struck Iran, US officials say - BBC News
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Iranian media and officials have downplayed reports of an attack on sites in the central city of Isfahan and the north-western city of Tabriz. James Landale
Hossein Dalirian, spokesperson for the country's National Centre of Cyberspace and the Iran Space Agency, in a post X denied there had been a direct missile attack from outside the country, which contradicts the line from US officials that an Israeli missile has hit Iran. Diplomatic correspondent, reporting from Jerusalem
By not publicly acknowledging responsibility for the
strike - as is commonplace - Israel’s war cabinet may hope to make it more
difficult for hard-line members of the governing coalition to criticise the
limited nature of the attack, thus avoiding a political row over Passover.
But
that did not restrain some.
Israel’s far right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir,
said a few days ago he wanted Israel to “go berserk” in response to Iran’s
attack.
This morning the minister - upon whose faction Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depends - seemed less than impressed.
On X, the social
media platform formerly known as Twitter, he posted one word, best translated
as: "Lame.”
Israel’s opposition leader, Yair Lapid, hit back
hard at this, posting:
A security cabinet minister has never caused such heavy damage to the country’s security, image and international standing. With an unforgivable, one word tweet Ben Gvir managed to ridicule and embarrass Israel all the way from Tehran to Washington. Any other prime minister would have thrown him out of the cabinet this morning."
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