Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz warned Iran on Wednesday not to attack Israel from Iranian soil, more than a week after a suspected Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital.
Katz posted on the social media platform X: “If Iran launches an attack from its own territory, Israel will respond and launch an attack in Iran.”
Katz also relayed a statement from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the post.
Hours earlier, Khamenei said Israel “must be punished for the consulate attack.”
“When they attacked our consulate area, it was like they attacked our territory,” Khamenei said in remarks broadcast on Iranian state television.
In recent years, Israel has carried out airstrikes against Iranian-linked targets in Syria. Iran said an attack on the consulate on April 1 killed seven military advisers.
As Israel launches a counteroffensive in the Gaza Strip aimed at defeating the Iranian-backed Hamas armed organization, cross-border conflicts occur frequently between the Israeli army and the Lebanese Hezbollah armed group supported by Iran.
Iran also supports Houthi rebels in Yemen, who have carried out attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden for months.
Information for this report was obtained in part from The Associated Press, AFP and Reuters.
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