Summary
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comments before senior military leaders didn’t not touch on the apparent Israeli retaliatory strike. Khamenei made the comments in a meeting attended by the top ranks of Iran’S regular military, police and paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. Iran launched hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles in the April 13 attack. It was the first on Israel by a foreign power since Saddam Hussein launched Scud missiles in 1991. Israeli air defenses and fighter jets, backed by the U.S., the United Kingdom and neighboring Jordan, shot down the vast majority of incoming fire.