For Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, Tuesday's missile attack on Israel is "concluded, unless the Israeli regime decides to invite further retaliation."

"In that scenario, our response will be stronger and more powerful," Araqchi, who used to be a senior member of Iran's nuclear negotiating team, said on X, formerly known as Twitter.

So far, Iran has argued that Tuesday's attack with around 180 missiles had come in response to Israel's recent killings of Hezbollah leaders and its current incursion in Lebanon.

Tehran said the missiles had only targeted Israel's military infrastructure.

Meanwhile, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to fight back. "Iran made a big mistake tonight and it will pay for it," he said on Tuesday.

The US said it would support Israel to ensure Iran faced "severe consequences" for Tuesday's attack. The Pentagon also confirmed that it had fired around a dozen interceptors against the Iranian missiles.


In turn, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards explicitly threatened the US, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, a Middle East professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, told DW.

"They said if you attack........

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