Iranian defense minister warns against counterattacks on his country. Iran's Revolutionary Guards have also allegedly fired rockets against Israel.
Iran had previously launched an attack against Israel and dozens of drones towards the country. German Ambassador Steffen Seibert strongly condemned the attack on Israel on Saturday evening. “A direct attack like never before: Iranian drones approaching Israel and there can be more to come,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter) On April 1, two brigadier generals and five other members of the powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound in the Syrian capital Damascus. Iran’s head of state Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reiterated his threats against the Jewish state on social media. ‘The evil regime will be punished,’ said the religious leader’'s official account on the platform X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday night. Iran has reportedly launched a second wave of drone attacks on Israel. Israeli media reported this on Saturday afternoon, but could not initially be independently verified.