Israel attacks Iran military targets, Tehran says damage ‘limited’
Tehran said its air defence system successfully countered the attacks with ‘limited damage’ to some locations
Israel bombed military sites in Iran early on Saturday, but its retaliation for an Iranian attack this month did not target the most sensitive oil and nuclear facilities and drew no immediate vows of vengeance.
The risk of a wider conflagration between heavily armed Israel and Iran has convulsed a region already on fire with warfare in Gaza and Lebanon, but Tehran’s initial response appeared muted.
Israel’s military said scores of jets had completed three waves of strikes before dawn against missile factories and other sites near Tehran and in western Iran, and warned its heavily armed foe not to hit back.
Iran said its air defences had successfully countered the attack but two soldiers were killed and some locations suffered “limited damage”. A semi-official Iranian news agency said there would be a “proportional reaction” to the Israeli strikes.
