Iranian FM: Israeli weapons are 'toys for our children to play with'

• Published date: 20 April 2024
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Making the comments in an interview with NBC News, Abdollahian said "As long as there is no new adventurism by Israel against our interests, then we are not going to have any new reactions."

Threats against Israel

"If Israel takes a decisive action against my country and this is proven to us," he said, "our response will be immediate and to the maximum and will cause them to regret it."

The foreign minister went on to threaten that his comments were only a warning, and that "We could have hit Haifa and Tel Aviv… We could have also targeted all the economic ports of Israel."

Abdollahian said that the only reason that Iran had not successfully hit Haifa, Tel Aviv or any major port was because Iran's "red lines [were] civilians…We only had a military purpose."

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