Iran vows to unleash MORE drones & missiles on Israel if Netanyahu launches ‘reckless’ revenge strike as WW3 fears loom

IRAN has vowed to unleash another barrage of drones and missiles on Israel if the country retaliates for last night’s rain of fire.

The world is on tenterhooks waiting to see how PM Benjamin Netanyahu will respond to Iran launching an unprecedented attack on Israeli soil.

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Israeli Air Force F-15 Eagle is pictured at an air base after an interception mission of an Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel[/caption]

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Explosions are seen in the skies above Jerusalem on Saturday night[/caption]

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A drone is launched in an undisclosed area in Iran as Iran launches dozens of drones at Israel[/caption]

Booming explosions were heard in the skies above Jerusalem late last night, as air sirens wailed and terrified residents ran to bomb shelters.

More than 300 drones and missiles were launched at Israel by Iran and its proxy groups in Lebanon and Yemen – 99 per cent of which were intercepted, according to Israeli military.

Iran is said to have fired 170 drones, more than 30 cruise missiles, and more than 120 ballistic missiles.

Britain’s RAF helped down “a number” of attack drones over the Iraq-Syrian border, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed on Sunday.

Several ballistic missiles did reach Israeli territory, wounding a girl and causing minor damage to a military base in the south.

The attack was Iran‘s first full-scale military assault against Israel and came after an Israeli strike on its Syrian consulate in Damascus killed 13 people – including seven IRGC officers – on April 1.

Iran said any “reckless” retaliation to last night’s unprecedented aerial attack would be met with a “much stronger response”.

In a statement reported by AFP, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said “if the Zionist regime [Israel] or its supporters demonstrate reckless behaviour, they will receive a decisive and much stronger response”.

It is not yet clear how Israel will respond – although the country’s defence and foreign ministers warned last week that it would strike back inside Iran if Iran were to attack Israel.

Iran’s IRGC, the most powerful branch of its armed forces, said it launched last night’s attack “in retaliation against the Zionist regime’s [Israel] repeated crimes, including the attack on the Iranian embassy’s consulate in Damascus”.

The Iranian mission told the UN after the strikes that “the matter can be deemed concluded”.

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Israel’s anti-missile system is employed after Iran’s attack[/caption]