Mehdi Toghyani, a member of the Iranian parliament from Isfahan, says that Israel's "desperate attempt" "with the help of local agents" has "failed and brought them a new misfortune. "Let them know that we are ready to protect our dear Iran," wrote the MP in a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"They will be targeted by our powerful air defense," he told IRNA, again by Al Jazeera, before Friday prayers in Tehran. It is not clear whether the meeting will take place in Tehran or in the West Bank city of Wazirabad, where Israel has a military base, or in other parts of the country such as Eshkol, near the border with Israel. The Israeli prime minister has said that he will not allow Iran to use its airspace to carry out strikes against Israel, and that Israel will not attack Iran from the air.