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Iranian foreign minister dismisses Israeli strike as ‘toys,’ says there’ll be no retaliation
Iran’s top foreign affairs official dismissed weapons launched against the country by neighboring Israel as «toys» and said there was no plan to retaliate.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian downplayed the Israeli strike during an interview on Friday, hours after the impact.
«What happened last night wasn’t a strike,» Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told NBC News. «They were more like toys that our children play with — not drones.»
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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian photographed during a meeting at United Nations Headquarters. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
«As long as there is no new adventurism by Israel against our interests, then we are not going to have any new reactions,» he added.
Amir-Abdollahian also stated that the Iranian regime is not completely convinced the strike came from Israel, though he failed to offer alternative theories.
«If Israel takes a decisive action against my country and this is proven to us, our response will be immediate and to the maximum and will cause them to regret it,» the foreign minister said.
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This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows Iran’s nuclear site in Isfahan, Iran. Iran fired air defenses at a major air base and a nuclear site early Friday morning near the central city of Isfahan after spotting drones, which were suspected to be part of an Israeli attack in retaliation for Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on the country. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
Israel carried out limited strikes in Iran early Friday in retaliation for Tehran firing a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel last Saturday. A well-placed military source told Fox News that the strike was «limited.»
There have been no reports of large-scale damage or casualties.
Explosions were reported in the Isfahan province, which is where Natanz, one of Iran’s nuclear facilities, is located.
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Vehicles drive past an anti-Israeli banner showing missiles being launched, in a square in downtown Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Following the attack, Iranian state media stated that the nation’s atomic sites were «fully safe» and had not been struck by the missiles.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, a United Nations affiliate watchdog organization, later confirmed «there is no damage to Iran’s nuclear sites.»
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Car ramming in Mannheim, Germany, leaves 2 dead, multiple injured: reports
A suspect rammed a car into a crowd of people in Mannheim, Germany on Monday, killing two people and injuring multiple others, reports say.
Police said the suspect is in custody, but would not immediately characterize the incident as an attack. The driver is a 40-year-old German from the nearby state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Thomas Strobl, the state interior minister of Baden-Württemberg, where Mannheim is based, told German news agency dpa.
«We mourn with the relatives of the victims of a senseless act of violence and fear for those injured. We cannot accept this,» German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on X.
Local media reported that a car drove at a high rate of speed into the crowd in Mannheim’s Paradeplatz square, according to Reuters. Locals were urged to avoid the downtown area in Mannheim due to police activity.
SUSPECT IN MUNICH CAR ATTACK HAD ‘ISLAMIST MOTIVATION,’ PROSECUTOR SAYS
Police officers stand next to a damaged vehicle in the city center of Mannheim, Germany, on Monday March 3. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser canceled her participation in the carnival street parade in Cologne due to the events in Mannheim.
«The focus is now on saving lives, treating the injured and the initial investigations by the authorities in Mannheim,» an interior ministry spokesperson told the dpa news agency.
Mannheim University Hospital said they were treating three people from the crash, two adults and a child, dpa reported.
The incident happened weeks after a car ramming attack in Munich left a 2-year-old girl and her mother dead.
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Debris is seen scattered on the streets of Mannehim, Germany, following the reported car ramming attack on Monday, March 3. (Dieter Leder/dpa via AP)
That attack happened a day before Vice President JD Vance and others gathered in Munich for the Munich Security Conference.
German prosecutors later said the suspect in the Munich incident, a 24-year-old Afghan, appeared to have been motivated by Islamic extremism.
Last year, six people also were killed and more than 200 injured when a car slammed into a Christmas market in eastern Germany city of Magdeburg.
Emergency services and police stand at Paradeplatz in Mannheim, Germany, following the incident on Monday March 3. (René Priebe/dpa via AP)
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The suspect, who was arrested, was a 50-year-old doctor originally from Saudi Arabia who had expressed anti-Muslim views and support for the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative For Germany party, the AP reported.
Fox News’ Thomas Ferraro and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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