Israel strikes back at Iran after unprecedented attack

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said today, April 16, that he had launched a diplomatic offensive against Iran. "In addition to the military response to the missile and drone launches, I am leading a diplomatic offensive against Iran," Foreign Minister Katz wrote on the social network X, according to AFP.

"This morning, I sent letters to 32 countries and spoke to dozens of foreign ministers and other leading figures around the world , calling for sanctions on Iran's missile program and declaring the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization," Katz wrote. "Iran must be stopped now, before it's too late."

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Mr Katz did not specify which governments he had asked to impose sanctions on Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has been designated a terrorist organisation by the US and is subject to sanctions by the European Union. There was no immediate response from Iran, AFP reported.

Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari (center) and other members of the Israeli military stand next to an Iranian ballistic missile that fell in Israel last weekend, at the Julis military base near the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malachi on April 16.

Katz announced the diplomatic offensive after Israel said it would respond to Iran’s unprecedented direct attack on Israel on the night of April 13 and early morning of April 14, using more than 300 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Tehran said the attack was in retaliation for an airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus, Syria, on April 1 that killed seven Iranian officers.

The Israeli military said it had intercepted 99 percent of the missiles and drones launched by Iran, with the help of the US and other allies, and that the Iranian attack had caused only minor damage, including to a military base in southern Israel, according to AFP.

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