{"id":28075,"date":"2024-04-20T09:04:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T09:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/war-first-attack-was-warning-we-can-hit-tel-aviv-israels-ports-iran-foreign-minister\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T09:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T09:04:58","slug":"war-first-attack-was-warning-we-can-hit-tel-aviv-israels-ports-iran-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/war-first-attack-was-warning-we-can-hit-tel-aviv-israels-ports-iran-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"War: First attack was warning, we can hit Tel Aviv, Israel\u2019s ports \u2013 Iran Foreign Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdullahi, has said the first attack on Israel was a warning.<\/p>\n<p>Amir-Abdullahi said Iran could decide to attack Israel\u2019s cities of Tel Aviv, Haifa and its economic ports.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke with NBC News\u2019 Tom Llamas, on Friday on the sidelines of the United Nations Security Council in the United States, US.<\/p>\n<p>Amir-Abdullahi said Iran was not planning to respond unless Israel launched a significant attack.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe could have hit Haifa and Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could have also targeted all the economic ports of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut our red lines were civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe only had a military purpose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as there is no new adventurism by Israel against our interests, then we are not going to have any new reactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Israel takes decisive action against my country, this is proven to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur response will be immediate and to the maximum and will cause them to regret it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also likened the weapons used in attacking his country to children\u2019s toys.<\/p>\n<p>Amir-abdollahian\u2019s remark is coming amid reports of Israel carrying out a retaliatory attack on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, Iran shot a barrage of drones and missiles towards Israel in retaliation for the April 1 attack in Damascus, Syria that killed some of its generals.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Iranian Foreign Minister didn\u2019t confirm that Israel was behind the recent attack on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened last night was not a strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were more like toys that our children play with \u2013 not drones,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>War: First attack was warning, we can hit Tel Aviv, Israel\u2019s ports \u2013 Iran Foreign Minister<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdullahi, has said the first attack on Israel was a warning. Amir-Abdullahi said Iran could decide&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14185,1421,15,14186],"tags":[14187,8090,13240,1425,180,14188],"class_list":["post-28075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran-foreign","category-israel","category-news","category-tel-aviv","tag-aviv","tag-foreign","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-tel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}