Here’s what Iran’s supreme leader said about ‘punishing’ Israel for Syria embassy attack | SBS News [Video]

Iran launched an unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel, the Israeli army announced, in a major escalation of the long-running covert war between the regional foes.

Iran’s proxies and allies also carried out attacks on Israeli positions as sirens sounded in many places and blasts were heard in the skies above Jerusalem early Sunday.

Iran had repeatedly threatened to strike Israel in retaliation for a deadly 1 April air strike on its Damascus consular annex and Washington had warned repeatedly in recent days that the reprisals were imminent.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, used social media platform X to repost a video from Wednesday (April 10) in which he said Israel “must be punished and it shall be” for attacking the Iranian embassy compound in Syria.

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