By Abiola Olawale
The United States has disclosed that it has successfully defeated Iran’s ballistic missile assault on Israel.
The White House, in a statement issued on Tuesday by Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor to US President Joe Biden, declared that the missile attack on Israel was “defeated and ineffective.”
Sullivan also hailed US involvement in repelling some of the attacks.
He said: “Based on what we know at this point, this attack appears to have been defeated and ineffective.”
The New Diplomat reports that in the late hours of Tuesday, Iranian forces said it had fired a barrage of missiles into Israel’s territory.
The Iranian forces said the attack is targeted at three military bases around Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv.
It would be recalled that this latest attack comes after an Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday killed the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah.
Nasrallah was killed alongside General Abbas Nilforoushan, a top commander of the Quds Force, the IRGC’s foreign operations arm.
Following the killings, Iran had vowed that Nilforoushan’s killing would “not go unanswered”.
Also, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during his address at last month’s UN General Assembly in New York, accused Israel of warmongering, saying Iran was exercising restraint in the face of provocation.
It would be recalled that Tuesday’s attack was Iran’s second on Israel this year.
Iran had launched a missile and drone attack in April in retaliation for a deadly Israeli air strike on its consulate in Damascus.
However, the US claimed it intercepted nearly all of the missiles and drones fired in that attack.
