Iran claims new missiles forced Israel to halt threats
The spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said newly unveiled Iranian ballistic missiles pushed Israel back from threatening the Islamic Republic with a military strike.
The spokesman for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said last week's military drills in his country sent a message to Israel and made it end its war threats against the Islamic Republic.
"The Zionists [Israeli government] were under the impression that they were capable of neutralizing some of our ballistic missiles," Ramezan Sharif told the state-run Arabic language Al-Alam TV. "But thanks to our spectacular advances … [Israel's anti-missile] Iron Dome system fails to detect our projectiles."
The spokesman was referring to ballistic missiles Iran showed off last week in a major military exercise, dubbed Great Prophet 17.
In the run-up to the war games, Israeli officials ratcheted up threats and were reportedly preparing an Iran strike simulation. But Sharif said that from the Iranian perspective, those moves "are little more than rhetoric" meant by Israeli officials "to deflect attention" from their domestic problems. He also echoed some Israeli military assessments that the Jewish state lacks the prowess to defeat Iran.
